We Are Your Sisters - by Dorothy Sterling (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Reissued in a new trade paperback format and design, "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. . . ". Following a successful run in New York, an acclaimed stage adaptation of this work is touring nationally in 1997. Photos.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Including oral history, letters and excerpts from diaries, this is a documentary study of 2 million black slave women and 200,000 free black women in the 19th century.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Dorothy Sterling has for most of a rich lifetime been providing us with significant portions of black women's history. Now we have another treasure, the fruits of a sympathetic heart and an able mind.--Florence Howe, The State University of New York at Old Westbury<br><br>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 reading.<br><br>A remarkable documentary and the first in-depth record of many black women, slave and free. --Dorothy B. Porter, curator emeritus, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University -- Dorothy B. Porter<br>
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