{"product_id":"womens-work-an-anthology-of-african-american-womens-historical-writings-from-antebellum-america-to-the-harlem-renaissance-9780195331998","title":"Women's Work: An Anthology of African-American Women's Historical Writings from Antebellum America to the Harlem Renaissance","description":"Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits, women have always been historians. Although few participated in the academic study of history until the mid-twentieth century, women labored as teachers of history and historical interpreters. Within African-American\u003cbr\u003ecommunities, women began to write histories in the years after the American Revolution. Distributed through churches, seminaries, public schools, and auxiliary societies, their stories of the past translated ancient Africa, religion, slavery, and ongoing American social reform as historical\u003cbr\u003esubjects to popular audiences North and South. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book surveys the creative ways in which African-American women harnessed the power of print to share their historical revisions with a broader public. Their speeches, textbooks, poems, and polemics did more than just recount the past. They also protested their present status in the United\u003cbr\u003eStates through their reclamation of that past. Bringing together work by more familiar writers in black America-such as Maria Stewart, Francis E. W. Harper, and Anna Julia Cooper-as well as lesser-known mothers and teachers who educated their families and their communities, this documentary\u003cbr\u003ecollection gathers a variety of primary texts from the antebellum era to the Harlem Renaissance, some of which have never been anthologized. Together with a substantial introduction to black women's historical writings, this volume presents a unique perspective on the past and imagined future of\u003cbr\u003ethe race in the United States.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, Kathryn Lofton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/07\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195331998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaurie F. Maffly-Kipp is Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author and editor of several books, most recently \u003cem\u003eSetting Down the Sacred Past: African-American Race Histories.\u003c\/em\u003e Kathryn Lofton is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies at Yale University. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eOprah: The Gospel of an Icon.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39959067361395,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":36.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_38f7a26b-7a62-4eb7-8536-5c50a9bd06bd.jpg?v=1648740654","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/womens-work-an-anthology-of-african-american-womens-historical-writings-from-antebellum-america-to-the-harlem-renaissance-9780195331998","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}