Black Women and the Philosophy of "Race Uplift" Prior to Emancipation. Working Paper [electronic resource] / Linda M. Perkins.

The pre-emancipation (1830-1865) black woman reformer was concerned with race "uplift," a sense of duty and obligation to her race. Black women in the North formed mutual aid societies for the economic survival of the destitute. Regardless of economic status, free blacks consistently sough...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Perkins, Linda M.
Corporate Author:	Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1980.
Subjects:	Black Attitudes. Black Education. Black Employment. Black History. Black Leadership. Black Organizations. Black Power. Females. Racial Discrimination. Racial Relations. Slavery. United States History. Whites.