Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction
Hallie Q Brown author Randall K Burkett editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
Published:28th Jul '88
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Hallie Q. Brown and twenty-eight contributors recreate the lives of sixty remarkable Afro-American women, all born in the United States or Canada between the 1740s and the end of the nineteenth century. Slaves and social workers, artists and activists, cake makers and home makers, their stories offer unusual insight into female networks, patterns of voluntary association, work, religion, family life, and black women's culture.
Church, school, and club constitute the triumvirate of associations central to the lives of the 60 Afro-American women born in the United States or Canada between the mid-1740s and the end of the nineteenth century and chronicled in Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction....It is distinguished as a collaborative effort by a group of self-confident and historically self-conscious black women who were determined to preserve the stories of sacrifice and struggle their forebears had endured. * Randall K. Burkett, in his Introduction *
ISBN: 9780195052374
Dimensions: 219mm x 148mm x 29mm
Weight: 562g
350 pages