Unknown Tongues: Black Women's Political Activism in the Antebellum Era, 1830-1860

by Gayle T. Tate

Book Overview

Unknown Tongues examines the social and economic factors of northern industrialization, social reform, and black nationalism, all of which undergirded black women's political consciousness during the decades before the American Civil War. The linkages between black women's roles in the "culture of resistance" in slave communities and their transformations in the urban market economy fueled the development of black women's political consciousness...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870136534
• ISBN13: 9780870136535
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"