Frances E.W. Harper, “We Are All Bound Up Together” (10 May 1866)

Authentication Materials:

  1. Speech title as it is to be printed: “We Are All Bound Up Together.”
  2. Exact date and place of speech delivery: 10 May 1866. New York, NY.
  3. Full name of speaker, with year of birth and year of death: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911).
  4. Full name of editor of electronic text: Garth E. Pauley.
  5. Date of electronic edition: Fall 2024.
  6. Languages: English (100%).
  7. Indication of editorial functions performed: Garth E. Pauley transcribed and proofread the speech as found in the phonographic report of the Eleventh National Woman’s Rights Convention Proceedings.

Bibliographic List of Sources:

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins. “We Are All Bound Up Together.” In The National Woman’s Rights Convention, Proceedings of the Eleventh National Woman’s Rights Convention Held at the Church of the Puritans, New York, May 10, 1866, report compiled by H. M. Parkhurst, 90-93. New York: Robert J. Johnson, 1866. [=A]

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins. “We Are All Bound Up Together.” In Lift Every Voice: African American Oratory, 1787-1900, eds. Philip S. Foner and Robert James Branham, 456-460. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998. [=B]

Statement of Editorial Procedures:

This unit relies on a transcription of Harper’s speech published in the Proceedings of the Eleventh National Woman’s Rights Convention, copy-text A [=A].

Copy-text A was used for grammar, spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and paragraphing, with the exception of three instances, noted below. Audience responses or injections were removed. Paragraph numbers were added in square brackets.

Copy-text B was used to correct two misspellings in copy-text A.

The departures from the copy-text and general editorial procedures are as follows. Numbers indicate the paragraph where the change occurred.

4 “breadth” B “breath” A

5 “prejudice” B “prejucioe” A

In one instance, quotation marks were added to enhance the clarity of the speech text.

8 Quotation marks were added for the sentence, “You are good enough for soldiers, but not good enough for citizens.”

The text of this edition has been thoroughly checked and proofread.

All double quotation marks are rendered with “, all single quotation marks with apostrophe ‘.

This copy text is not subject to end-of-line hyphenation.

Special characters and characters with diachronic marks: none.

There are no other departures from the copy-text.