Doers of the word : African-American women speakers and writers in the North (1830-1880)
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Doers of the word : African-American women speakers and writers in the North (1830-1880)
（Race and American culture）
Oxford University Press, 1995
Available at 5 libraries
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Bibliography: p. 259-271
Includes index
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Description
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.
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