Women's work : an anthology of African-American women's historical writings from antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance / edited by Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp and Kathryn Lofton.

"This anthology aims to bring together writings by African-American women between 1832 and 1920, the period when they began to write for American audiences and to use history to comment on political and social issues of the day. The pieces are by more familiar nineteenth-century writers in Black Ame...

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