The Work of the Afro-American Woman

by N.F. Mossell

Book Overview

Part intellectual history, part advice book, and part polemic, this collection of original essays and poetry presents a defense and celebration of the achievements--moral, material, intellectual, and artistic--of black women in Victorian America. Writing as a Christian, a mother, and a wife, Mrs. Mossell held exemplary models of black womanhood before the public eye, called for the end to caste and color discrimination, and challenged the so-called...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195063260
• ISBN13: 9780195063264
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.6" x 6.4"