Notes from a colored girl : the Civil War pocket diaries of Emilie Frances Davis /

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"In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis, a freeborn twenty-one-year-old mulatto woman, through a close reading of three pocket diaries she kept from 1863 to 1865. Whitehead explores Davis's worldviews and politics, he...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Whitehead, Karsonya Wise (Author)
Other Authors: Davis, Emilie Frances, 1838-1899
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2014]
Series:Women's diaries and letters of the South.
Subjects:
Davis, Emilie Frances, > 1838-1899 > Diaries.
Davis, Emilie Frances, > 1838-1899
1800-1899
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography.
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Noirs américains > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Biographies.
Noirs américains > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
African Americans
Race relations
Social conditions
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies
Diaries
History
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A world discovered
  • Emilie Davis, 1863
  • A world imagined
  • A world created
  • Emilie Davis, 1864
  • A world of women
  • A world expanded
  • Emilie Davis, 1865
  • A world where things are well
  • Who's who.

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