We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century (Revised)
Dorothy Sterling
(Editor)
Mary Helen Washington
(Foreword by)
21,000+ Reviews
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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.
Product Details
Price
$32.50
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publish Date
July 01, 1997
Pages
556
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.5 X 1.4 inches | 1.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780393316292
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About the Author
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.
Reviews
A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free. --Dorothy B. Porter, curator emeritus, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University -- Dorothy B. Porter
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. . . . Added to the oral interviews collected by historians of the WPA Writers' Project in the 1930s are excerpts from contemporary diaries, letters, newspapers, memoirs and other sources. . . . A narrative symphonic in scope and inspiring in its revelations of the human ability to overcome. . . . Unforgettable reading.
Dorothy Sterling has for most of a rich lifetime been providing us with significant portions of black women's history. Now we have another treasure, the fruits of a sympathetic heart and an able mind.--Florence Howe, The State University of New York at Old Westbury
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. . . . Added to the oral interviews collected by historians of the WPA Writers' Project in the 1930s are excerpts from contemporary diaries, letters, newspapers, memoirs and other sources. . . . A narrative symphonic in scope and inspiring in its revelations of the human ability to overcome. . . . Unforgettable reading.
Dorothy Sterling has for most of a rich lifetime been providing us with significant portions of black women's history. Now we have another treasure, the fruits of a sympathetic heart and an able mind.--Florence Howe, The State University of New York at Old Westbury
