Race & American Culture
1 total work
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.