Out of the Depths, Or, the Triumph of the Cross (AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS, 1910-1940) - 5933

African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940 seriesHenry Louis Gates, Jr., General EditorThe past decade has seen the increasing popularity of African-American women writers, from Alice Walker, to the Delany sisters, to Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. Although African-American women have been publishing their work since at least 1733, when Phyllis Wheatley published her book of poems in London, their writings in the past have been largely neglected and hard to find. This series helps fill that void by reprinting in their original format the works by black women writers who published during the first half of the twentieth century.Born a slave in 1860, Nellie Arnold Plummer was an educator in the schools of Maryland and Washington, D.C., for forty-five years. Her family narrative and spiritual biography Out of the Depths, or The Triumph of the Cross documents, through excerpts from the diary of her father and letters by family members, the trials, hardships, and triumphs of the Plummers through slavery into freedom.
ASIN: 0783814259
VSKU: LFV.0783814259.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Plummer, Nellie Arnold|Braxton, Joanne M.
Binding: Hardcover