Gender, Class, and the Performance of a Black (Anti) Enlightenment: Resistances of David Walker and Sojourner Truth

2012/01/01 by Sarah Jane Cervenak · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Race, History, and American Society

paper · pdf · doi:10.1353/pal.2012.0010

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Abstract

The course toward freedom pursued by late-nineteenth-century black activists is as ideologically and philosophically complicated as the question of freedom itself. Dynamics of gender, class, race, religion/spirituality, and one's experience with enslavement affected the schematization of the course.

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• Sojourner Truth [wikipedia]

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