Journal of Charlotte L. Forten A Young Black Woman's Reactions to the White World of the Civil War Era

Name: Journal of Charlotte L. Forten A Young Black Woman's Reactions to the White World of the Civil War Era
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ISBN: 9780393000467

ISBN-10: 039300046X

ISBN-13: 9780393000467

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Charlotte L. Forten, Ray Allen Billington

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Charlotte L. Forten (1838-1914) was sensitive, intelligent, and educated in the culture and conventions of pre-Civil War America. But one thing distinguished her from other young Philadelphia women: she was black, destined to endure the constant insults that were accorded any person of color in her day. Her remarkable diary reveals how her resentment against the prejudice of the white world became transformed into an iron determination to excel. Impatient to help the self-advancement of other blacks, she went to Massachusetts to become a teacher and became active in literary and abolitionist circles. Then, during the Civil War, she traveled to South Carolina to participate in a unique…

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List price: $23.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.80" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.704