Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life presents selections from the writings of two dozen representative black women leaders of the past century, with a general introduction relating them to their forebears in colonial times and to their descendants in the twentieth century. Each selection is introduced with a biographical headnote, and the book contains a bibliography of works by or about these women and other black women. The...
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19th Century African-American & Black African-American Studies Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History Ethnic & National Literary Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Specific Demographics Specific Groups Women Women's Studies