Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt.1. General theoretical essays: African-American women's history and the metalanguage of race / Evelyn Brooks Higgenbotham -- When your work is not who you are: the development of a working-class consciousness among Afro-American women / Sharon Harley -- "What has happened here": the politics of difference in women's history and feminist politics / Elsa Barkley Brown -- pt.2. Africa: Sexual demography: the impact of the slave trade on family structure / John Thornton -- African women in the Atlantic slave trade / Herbert S. Klein -- Concubinage and the status of women slaves in early colonial northern Nigeria / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Give a thought to Africa: black women missionaries in southern Africa / Sylvia M. Jacobs -- pt.3. Caribbean and Canada: Women and slavery in the Caribbean: a feminist pespective / Rhoda E. Reddock -- A study of two women's slave narratives: incidents in the life of a slave / Andrea Starr Alonzo -- Defiance or submission? The role of the slave woman in slave resistance in the British Caribbean / Barbara Bush -- The search for Mary Bibb, black woman teacher in nineteenth-century Canada west / Afua Cooper -- pt.4. United States--eighteenth century: The double bonds of race and sex: black and white women in a colonial Virginia parish / Joan Rezner Gundersen -- Black women in the era of the American Revolution in Pennsylvania / Debra L. Newman -- From three-fifths to zero: implications of the constitution for African-American women, 1787-1870 / Mamie E. Locke --

pt.5. United States--nineteenth century: Free African-American women in Savannah, 1800-1860: affluence and autonomy amid adversity / Whittington B. Johnson -- Property owning free African-American women in the south, 1800-1870 / Loren Schweninger -- Slavery, sharecropping, and sexual inequality / Susan A. Mann -- "A career to build, a people to serve, a purpose to accomplish": race, class, gender, and Detroit's first black women teachers, 1865-1916 / John B. Reid -- Still in chains: black women in western prisons, 1865-1910 / Anne M. Butler -- The southern side of "glory": Mississippi African-American women during the Civil War / Noralee Frankel -- Domination and resistance: the politics of wage household labor in new south Atlanta / Tera W. Hunter -- Sojourner Truth in life and memory: writing the biography of an American exotic / Nell Irvin Painter -- Black womanhood in nineteenth-century America: subversion and self-construction in two women's autobiographies / Beth Maclay Doriani -- Clothing as an expression of history: the dress of African-American women in Georgia, 1880-1915 / Patricia K. Hunt -- pt.6. United States--twentieth century: "Civilization", the decline of middle-class manliness, and Ida B. Wells's antilynching campaign (1892-94) / Gail Bederman -- Black club women and the creation of the National Association of Colored Women / Stephanie J. Shaw -- Black and white visions of welfare: women's welfare activism, 1890-1945 / Linda Gordon -- Discontented black feminists: prelude and postscript to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn -- The black community and the birth control movement / Jessie M. Rodrique -- And still I rise: black women and reform, Buffalo, New York, 1900-1940 / Lillian S. Williams -- "We all seem like brothers and sisters": the African-American community in Manhattan, Kansas, 1865-1940 / Nupur Chaudhuri -- Black women activists and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: the case of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson / Cynthia Griggs Fleming.

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