We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

by Dorothy Sterling, Mary Helen Washington

Overview

"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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393316292
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	07/17/1997
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	556
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Dorothy Sterling (1913—2008) was a native New Yorker who lived for many years on Cape Cod in Wellfleet. She made many trips to Nantucket, Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, and Long Island. She was a painstaking and thorough researcher with a long list of natural history, biography, and fiction books to her credit.

Editorial Reviews

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

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.

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

From the Publisher

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