We Are Your Sisters Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

"This richly researched, sensitively edited, annotated volume portrays indelibly, in their own words, the lives of American black women before, during, and immediately after the Civil War.....Added to the oral interviews collected by historians of the WPA Writers' Project in the 1930s are excerpts from contemporary diaries, letters, newspapers, memoirs, and other sources.....A narrative symphonic in scope and inspiring in its revelations of the human ability to overcome.....Unforgettable readings.Sterling, Dorothy is the author of 'We Are Your Sisters Black Women in the Nineteenth Century', published 1997 under ISBN 9780393316292 and ISBN 0393316297.