Women's Work: An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance
- ISBN-10
- 0195331990
- ISBN-13
- 9780195331998
- Series
- Women's Work
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 227
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Kathryn Lofton, Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp
Description
This documentary collection gathers together texts by a variety of African American women historians from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century.
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