This is a study of ten 19th-century female African-American social activists, who were engaged in both deed and word in the most important reform movements of their time. It argues that these women were often hampered in their efforts by their exclusion from positions of power within the institutions of the black male elite. As a consequence, they sought and found sites of power in religious evangelicalism, travel, public speaking and fiction writing.
- ISBN10 0195085191
- ISBN13 9780195085198
- Publish Date 11 May 1995
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 26 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 293
- Language English