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A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century.

About the Author

Hollis Robbins is director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University and chair of the humanities department at Peabody Conservatory.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University.

Reviews

“An extraordinary historical record.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“A rewarding history, and a reminder that the past is never a single narrative. It's a conversation with itself and with the present, well worth having.”
—NPR