Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women's Writing

by Katherine Clay Bassard

The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women's voices. The significance of their writings would be profound for all African Americans' sense of their own identity as a people.

Katherine Clay Bassard's book is the first detailed account...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069101647X
• ISBN13: 9780691016474
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher