‘We the ladies … have been deprived of a voice’: Uncovering Black Women’s Lives through the Colored Conventions Archive

This article will investigate how African American women’s experience with education informed the Colored Conventions movement and propose that they used education activism as an avenue to gain and normalize official participation in convention proceedings. From its inception in 1830, the Colored Co...

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Main Author: Samantha de Vera
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2018-12-01
Series:19 : Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
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Online Access:https://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/articles/835