Women's Work(English, Paperback, Maffly-Kipp Laurie F.)

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Women's Work(English, Paperback, Maffly-Kipp Laurie F.) is written by Maffly-Kipp Laurie F. and published by Oxford University Press Inc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0195331990 (ISBN 10) and 9780195331998 (ISBN 13).

Women have always been historians. Whether in schoolrooms or kitchens, state houses or church pulpits, women functioned as teachers of history and historical interpreters, offering narrations of the past to criticize existent narratives and inspire new ones. Within African-American communities, women began to write histories in the years after the American Revolution. Distributed through churches, seminaries, public schools, and auxiliary societies, their stories of the past translated ancient Africa, slavery, and ongoing American social reform to populist audiences North and South. In the United States, black women have labored to sustain the cogency of their race and their families through the promotion of education, Christian and historical, for themselves and for their families. This book surveys the creative ways in which African American women harnessed the power of print to share their historical revisions with a broader public. These speeches, textbooks, poems, and polemics did more than just recount the past. They also protested their present status in the United States, using history to write a new story for the future of African America.