| We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century Revised Edition Contributor(s): Sterling, Dorothy (Editor), Washington, Mary Helen (Foreword by), Washington, Mary Helen (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0393316297 ISBN-13: 9780393316292 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $30.88 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1997 Annotation: Reissued in a new trade paperback format and design, "This richly researched, sensitively edited, annotated volume portrays indelibly, in their own words, the lives of American black women before, during, and immediately after the Civil War. . . ". Following a successful run in New York, an acclaimed stage adaptation of this work is touring nationally in 1997. Photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 305.4 |
| LCCN: 83011469 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.60 lbs) 556 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Including oral history, letters and excerpts from diaries, this is a documentary study of 2 million black slave women and 200,000 free black women in the 19th century. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sterling, Dorothy: - Dorothy Sterling (1913--2008) was a native New Yorker who lived for many years on Cape Cod in Wellfleet. She made many trips to Nantucket, Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, and Long Island. She was a painstaking and thorough researcher with a long list of natural history, biography, and fiction books to her credit. |