Long portrayed as a masculine endeavor, the African American struggle for progress often found expression through an unlikely literary figure: the black girl. N

Examining how nineteenth-century Black women writers engaged radical reform, sentiment and their various readerships

Contains 1000 oral interviews with American black women who lived between 1800 and the 1880s.

A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of