Here is a magnificent account of a past rich in beauty and creativity, but also in tragedy and trauma. Eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter blends a vivid narrative based on the latest research with a wonderful array of artwork by African American artists, works which add a new depth to our understanding of black history. Painter offers a history ...
Sojourner Truth was one the leading abolitionists in U.S. history, as well as being one of the most influential black women of her time. This biography separates truth from myth in her fascinating life story.
This journal is unique among the personal records left by women of the Civil War generation. This abridgment, edited by Thomas's great-granddaughter, focuses on the Civil War years and postwar period, showing how the economic hardships of the time affected Thomas and her family and illuminating experiences that Thomas shared with thousands of ...
This illustrated survey of the American labour movement focuses on the unemployment, strikes, bankruptcy and class conflict that consumed Americans and caused a political reaction from the end of Reconstruction to World War I.
A fiery speaker, Sojourner Truth was among the foremost women evangelists of nineteenth-century America. This reprint of her original 1878 publication sheds light on the life of this well-known ex-slave and ardent abolitionist.
The color line, once all too solid in southern public life, still exists in the study of southern history. As distinguished historian Nell Irvin Painter notes, historians often still write about the South as though people of different races occupied entirely different spheres. In truth, although blacks and whites were expected to remain in their ...
Why is it so hard for women to talk about competition? As the editors of this original anthology state: "Feminists have long been fiercely critical of male power games, yet we have often ignored or concealed our own conflcits over money, control, position, and recognition. It is time to end the silence." The book opens with Letty Cottin Pogrebin's ...
In August of 1758, in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, a poor Irish immigrant named Mary Madden bore a child, Sarah Madden, whose father was said to be a slave and the property of Colonel James Madison, father of the future president of the United States. This daughter, though born to a free mulatto, became indentured to the Madisons. There she ...
Born into a Georgia sharecropper family, Hosea Hudson moved to Birmingham, Alabama, to work in the steel mills in the turbulent 1930s and '40s and became a member of the Communist Party. This collaborative oral autobiography gives a vivid picture of the life and times of a black radical. Other books by Nell Irvin Painter include "Standing at ...
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