Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction

by Hallie Q. Brown, Randall K. Burkett (Illustrator)

Overview

Church, school, and club constitute the triumvirate of associations central to the lives of the women chronicled in Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction, compiled and edited by Hallie Quinn Brown.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195052374
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date:	04/28/1988
Series:	Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Series
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	4.88(w) x 6.81(h) x 1.11(d)

About the Author

Harvard University

Editorial Reviews

"Church, school, and club constitute the triumvirate of associations central to the lives of the 60 Afro-American women born in the United States or Canada between the mid-1740s and the end of the nineteenth century and chronicled in Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction....It is distinguished as a collaborative effort by a group of self-confident and historically self-conscious black women who were determined to preserve the stories of sacrifice and struggle their forebears had endured."—Randall K. Burkett, in his Introduction

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