Recently, historians have worked hard to recover the lives and experiences of African American women in 19th-century America. Often we are reliant on occasions when such women interacted with ...

Most of us know that before the American Civil ... the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided below it and free black people above it, with every man, woman and child in chains ...

At the time, it was exceedingly rare for a Black woman to serve as a schoolteacher ... Black community by the 19th century, certainly had African American churches and could have had small ...