Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Overview
Part I. Visibility
Chapter 1. A Pentadic View of African American Women during the American Civil War
Chapter 2. Negotiating Ways Forward
Part II. Audibility
Chapter 3. Before the Civil War
Chapter 4. During the Civil War
Chapter 5. After the Civil War
Chapter 6. At the Turn of the Century
Part III. Intelligibility
Chapter 7. Recasting Frameworks for Engagement and Regard
Chapter 8. Shifting Interpretive Paradigms
Last Words. Envisioning the Last Mile of a Worthy Quest
Appendix. A Sampling of Nineteenth-Century Women’s Autobiographies, Biographies, Diaries, Journals, Memoirs, and Letters
Notes
Bibliography
Index