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Black Women Abolitionists
Language: en
Pages: 220
Authors: Shirley J. Yee
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

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Looks at how the pattern was set for Black female activism in working for abolitionism while confronting both sexism and racism.
The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism
Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: Julie Roy Jeffrey
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-11-09 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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By focusing on male leaders of the abolitionist movement, historians have often overlooked the great grassroots army of women who also fought to eliminate slave
Hearts Beating for Liberty
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Stacey M. Robertson
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-11 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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Challenging traditional histories of abolition, this book shifts the focus away from the East to show how the women of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wi
The African-American Mosaic
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Library of Congress
Categories: African Americans
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher:

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"This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Cong
Ain't I A Woman?
Language: en
Pages: 84
Authors: Sojourner Truth
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-24 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now' A f