🕰️ Founders, Fighters, Rebels & Foremothers

$45.00

This deeply resonant used book bundle pulls from eras past and presents a powerful panorama of Black women’s leadership, entrepreneurship, intellect, and radical freedom. Thoughtfully curated, these books span centuries, revealing the strategies, identities, and intimacies that have shaped Black futures.

📦 All books are pre-loved and in excellent condition.
đź’Ś Comes hand-wrapped with a personalized note, journal, and aligned ephemera from our family.

đź’Ś Your purchase supports a Black-owned, family-run used bookstore that preserves banned and beloved Black stories.

This deeply resonant used book bundle pulls from eras past and presents a powerful panorama of Black women’s leadership, entrepreneurship, intellect, and radical freedom. Thoughtfully curated, these books span centuries, revealing the strategies, identities, and intimacies that have shaped Black futures.

📦 All books are pre-loved and in excellent condition.
đź’Ś Comes hand-wrapped with a personalized note, journal, and aligned ephemera from our family.

đź’Ś Your purchase supports a Black-owned, family-run used bookstore that preserves banned and beloved Black stories.

Bundle Contents & Highlights:

We Are Your Sisters – Edited by Dorothy Sterling

A foundational anthology spotlighting Black women—enslaved and free—across the nineteenth century. A richly researched collection of voices, captured through letters, interviews, writings, and archives that reveal defiance, dignity, and depth. Described as “a remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many Black women”.

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments – Saidiya Hartman

At the turn of the twentieth century, young Black women across Philadelphia and New York forged bold new lives—even in the face of systemic confinement. Hartman’s lyrical work is both reclamation and resistance, rendering invisible lives through radical intimacy, rebellion, and possibility. A National Book Critics Circle Award winner, praised for its visionary intensity.

Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life – Edited by Ruth Bogin & Bert J. Loewenberg

Selections from two dozen influential Black women leaders of the 19th century—spanning domains like religion, reform, education, and family. Each piece is thoughtfully contextualized, offering readers a biographical bridge between colonial times and contemporary movements.

Black Foremothers: Three Lives – Dorothy Sterling (First Edition)

Biographical portraits of Ellen Craft, Ida B. Wells, and Mary Church Terrell—three extraordinary women whose courage and conviction shaped the early civil rights movement. Sterling honors these foremothers as trailblazers and uplifters, placing their lives at the heart of America’s feminist traditions.

Why This Bundle Matters:

This set isn’t just an anthology! You’re holding the voices of foremothers, rebels, instructors, and love-makers. It’s for researchers, educators, and readers seeking clarity, courage, and connection through the pages of Black women’s resistance.