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

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

"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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Main Author: Whitehead, Karsonya Wise (Author)
Other Authors: Davis, Emilie Frances, 1838-1899
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2014]
Series:Women's diaries and letters of the South
Subjects:
Davis, Emilie Frances, > 1838-1899 > Diaries.
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography.
African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > Civil War, 1861-1865.

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Call Number: F 158.44 .W55 2014
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