Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction |
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| Author:
| Brown, Hallie Q. |
| Introduction by:
| Burkett, Randall K. |
| Series title: | The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-505237-4 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1988 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $143.59AUD $199.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.