In Praise of Black Women, Volume 2: Heroines of the Slavery Era Volume 2

by Val Vinokurov, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Rose-Myriam Réjouis, et al.

Heroines of the Slavery Era weaves oral tradition, folk legends and stories, songs and poems, historical accounts, and personal writings from North and South America and the Caribbean, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century.
These women of the slavery era include Aqualtune, a princess from Congo enslaved in Brazil and the Caribbean, who led an army of ten thousand warriors in the Battle of Mbwila; Anastasia, an African slave in Brazil,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299172600
• ISBN13: 9780299172602
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.0" x 12.0"