Extending the Conversation: “Inducing Colored Sisters of Other Places to Imitate Their Example”: Connecting Historic Literary Societies to a Contemporary Writing Group

In this thought-provoking piece, Muhammad articulates the development of a literacy collaborative for African American adolescent girls, with an eye toward replicating practices adopted by the Female Literary Association of Philadelphia and other similar societies established in the mid-1800s. Muhammad outlines the features of the literacy collaborative and presents the benefits it evoked for participants, including the reading of mentor texts, freedom to write openly without censorship, and uninterrupted writing time.