For centuries women have been marginalized and overlooked in American literary history. That injustice is corrected in this entertaining and provocative collect

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“Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.” —Claudia Tate, from the introduct

A landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of