Whispers of Cruel Wrongs
The Correspondence of Louisa Jacobs and Her Circle, 1879-1911
Seiten
2020
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-31184-1 (ISBN)
University of Wisconsin Press (Verlag)
978-0-299-31184-1 (ISBN)
Harriet Jacobs's autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, includes her heartbreaking account of parting with her young daughter, Louisa. Here, Mary Maillard follows the thread of the Jacobs family lineage by revealing the communications of Louisa Jacobs and her close friends in more than seventy previously unidentified letters.
Harriet Jacobs's famous autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, includes her heartbreaking account of parting with her young daughter, Louisa, who had been taken away to the North by her white father. Here, Mary Maillard follows the thread of the Jacobs family lineage by revealing the communications of Louisa Jacobs and her close friends in more than seventy previously unidentified letters. In this annotated correspondence, new voices call out from the lost world of nineteenth-century African American women who persevered despite difficult family obligations and the racial strife that marked the post-Reconstruction era.
Harriet Jacobs's famous autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, includes her heartbreaking account of parting with her young daughter, Louisa, who had been taken away to the North by her white father. Here, Mary Maillard follows the thread of the Jacobs family lineage by revealing the communications of Louisa Jacobs and her close friends in more than seventy previously unidentified letters. In this annotated correspondence, new voices call out from the lost world of nineteenth-century African American women who persevered despite difficult family obligations and the racial strife that marked the post-Reconstruction era.
Mary Maillard is a documentary editor and author of A Map of Time and Blood: An Introduction to the Skinner Family Papers, 1826-1850.
Erscheinungsdatum | 31.12.2019 |
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Reihe/Serie | Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography |
Zusatzinfo | 28 black & white illustrations, 4 charts |
Verlagsort | Wisconsin |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 345 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 0-299-31184-8 / 0299311848 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-299-31184-1 / 9780299311841 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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