All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
Martha S. Jones
Abstract
The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. This book explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements, and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. It reveals how, through the nineteenth century, the “woman question” was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights. The book explains that, like white women activists, who often created their own institutions separate from men, black women often or ... More
Keywords: Women's rights, African American, public culture, social movements, woman question, slavery, civil rights, black women activists
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2007 | Print ISBN-13: 9780807831526 |
| Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: July 2014 | DOI:10.5149/9780807888902_jones |
