| Edition |
First trade paperback edition. |
| Description |
355 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-338) and index. |
| Contents |
A new and alien world: seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- A tale of three cities: late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Survival and other forms of resistance: antebellum years on slave plantations -- Resistance becomes rebellion: antebellum years among free African Americans -- The war for freedom: the Civil War -- Free women in search of freedom: reconstruction -- Blossoming in hard soil: late nineteenth century -- No mountain too high: early twentieth century -- They carried their freedom bags: the Great Migration -- The Great Depression: 1930 through World War II -- Towards freedom: post-war through 1960s -- The caged bird sings: 1970s and 1980s -- A new era for Black women. |
| Subject |
African American women -- History.
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| Added Author |
Thompson, Kathleen.
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| ISBN |
0767901118 paperback |
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