The Journal of Charlotte L. Forten: A Free Negro in the Slave Era
Description
A young black woman's reactions to the white world of the Civil War era. 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 M...
ISBN(s)
039300046X, 9780393000467
