Black Female Intellectuals in Nineteenth Century America

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African American history
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Black Nationalism
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Black Women
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Franklin Hall
Free Woman
Gender history
Harriet Powers
Harriet Tubman
Hiram Powers
intellectual history of Black women
intersectional historiography
Jane Rhodes
literary activism analysis
nineteenth century activism
Nineteenth Century America
race gender politics
Racial Uplift
Rail Roads
Reconstruction
Slavery
Sojourner Truth
Stephanie Camp
War Widow's Pension
War Widow’s Pension
White America
Women's history
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9781032220444
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Dec 2022
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Drawing on letters, personal testimony, works of art, novels, and historic Black newspapers, this book is an interdisciplinary exploration of Black women’s contributions to the intellectual life of nineteenth-century America.

Black Female Intellectuals in Nineteenth Century America reconceptualizes the idea of what the term "intellectual" means through its discussions of both familiar and often forgotten Black women, including Edmonia Lewis, Harriet Powers, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Tubman, amongst others. This re-envisioning brings those who have previously been excluded from the scholarship of Black intellectualism more generally, and Black female intellectuals specifically, into the center of the debate. Importantly, it also situates the histories of Black women participating in the intellectual cultures of the United States much earlier than most previous scholarship.

This book will be of interest to both undergraduate and postgraduate specialists and students in the fields of African American history, women’s and gender history, and American studies, as well as general readers interested in historical and biographical works.

Dr. Rebecca J. Fraser is an associate professor of American History and Culture at the University of East Anglia, UK. Her previous books have included Courtship and Love among the Enslaved in North Carolina (2007) and Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth-Century America: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress (2012).

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