Activist Sentiments: Reading Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

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Activist Sentiments takes as its subject women who in fewer than fifty years moved from near literary invisibility to prolific productivity. Grounded in primary research and paying close attention to the historical archive, this book offers against-the-grain readings of the literary and activist work of Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson, Frances E. W. Harper, Victoria Earle M...more

Hardcover, 280 pages

Published August 18th 2009 by University of Illinois Press (first published 2009)

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