Women's Work
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This documentary collection gathers together texts by a variety of African American women historians from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century.
Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits, women have always been historians. Although few participated in the academic study of history until the mid-twentieth century, women labored as teachers of history and historical interpreters. Within African-American communities, women began to write histories in the years after the American Revolution. Distributed through churches, seminaries, public schools, and…mehr

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This documentary collection gathers together texts by a variety of African American women historians from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century.
Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits, women have always been historians. Although few participated in the academic study of history until the mid-twentieth century, women labored as teachers of history and historical interpreters. Within African-American communities, women began to write histories in the years after the American Revolution. Distributed through churches, seminaries, public schools, and auxiliary societies, their stories of the past translated ancient Africa, religion, slavery, and ongoing American social reform as historical subjects to popular audiences North and South.
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Autorenporträt
Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Setting Down the Sacred Past: African-American Race Histories and Religion and Society in Frontier California. Kathryn Lofton is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Religious Studies at Yale University.