Format:
Online-Ressource (183 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
069101647X
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0691016399
Series Statement:
Princeton studies in culture / power/history
Content:
The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women's voices. The significance of their writings would be profound for all African Americans' sense of their own identity as a people. Katherine Clay Bassard's book is the first detailed account of pre-Emancipation writings from the period of 1760 to 1863, in light of a developing African American religious culture and emerging free black commun
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-175) and index
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691016474
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Spiritual Interrogations : Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing
Language:
English
