A 2001 Companion providing an overview of the history of writing by women in nineteenth-century America.

A fresh compilation of essays and entries based on the latest research, this work documents African American culture and political activism from the slavery era

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African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from