‘Something Akin to Freedom’: African-American Women’s Writing in the Nineteenth Century
‘Something Akin to Freedom’: African-American Women’s Writing in the Nineteenth Century
Whether their topics were slavery, war, freedom, community, or family, African-American women in the nineteenth century contended with restrictions on what they could and could not write. As writers, they maneuvered within those restrictions in fascinating ways. Rebecca Entel, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Cornell College, will discuss a range of writers […]