Mary Ann Shadd Cary : the Black press and protest in the nineteenth century / Jane Rhodes

Author:: Rhodes, Jane, 1955-
Published:: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1999.
Edition:: Pbk. ed.
Physical Description:: xviii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents:

Introduction -- The making of an activist -- Emigration furor and Notes of Canada West -- Trouble in "paradise" -- "We have 'broken the editorial ice'" -- The Chatham years -- Civil War and the end of the Canadian sojourn -- Reconstructing a life -- reconstructing a people -- Law and reform in the nation's capital -- Conclusion: a life spent fighting at the margins.

Summary:

Relates the life and work of the first African American woman to publish and edit a newspaper in North America.

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ISBN:

0253213509
9780253213501
0253334462
9780253334466

Collection:

Barbara Ann McCarthy Collection of African-American Women Writers.

Note:

Altoona copy signed by author.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-277) and index.

Source of Acquisition:

Rare Books copy: Gift of Barbara Ann McCarthy and Robert B. Greer III, M.D.; 2010.

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