We Specialize in the Wholly Impossible: A Reader in Black Women's History, Vol. 17 Book

	Introduction
1	African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race	3
2	When Your Work Is Not Who You Are: The Development of a Working-Class Consciousness among Afro-American Women	25
3	"What Has Happened Here": The Politics of Difference in Women's History and Feminist Politics	39
4	Sexual Demography: The Impact of the Slave Trade on Family Structure	57
5	African Women in the Atlantic Slave Trade	67
6	Concubinage and the Status of Women Slaves in Early Colonial Northern Nigeria	77
7	Give a Thought to Africa: Black Women Missionaries in Southern Africa	103
8	Women and Slavery in the Caribbean: A Feminist Perspective	127
9	A Study of Two Women's Slave Narratives: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and The History of Mary Prince	143
10	Defiance or Submission? The Role of the Slave Woman in Slave Resistance in the British Caribbean	147
11	The Search for Mary Bibb, Black Woman Teacher in Nineteenth-Century Canada West	171
12	The Double Bonds of Race and Sex: Black and White Women in a Colonial Virginia Parish	189
13	Black Women in the Era of the American Revolution in Pennsylvania	211
14	From Three-Fifths to Zero: Implications of the Constitution for African-American Women, 1787-1870	225
15	Free African-American Women in Savannah, 1800-1860: Affluence and Autonomy Amid Adversity	237
16	Property Owning Free African-American Women in the South, 1800-1870	253
17	Slavery, Sharecropping, and Sexual Inequality	281
18	"A Career to Build, a People to Serve, a Purpose to Accomplish": Race, Class, Gender, and Detroit's First Black Women Teachers, 1865-1916	303
19	Still in Chains: Black Women in Western Prisons, 1865-1910	321
20	The Southern Side of "Glory": Mississippi African-American Women During the Civil War	335
21	Domination and Resistance: The Politics of Wage Household Labor in New South Atlanta	343
22	Sojourner Truth in Life and Memory: Writing the Biography of an American Exotic	359
23	Black Womanhood in Nineteenth-Century America: Subversion and Self-Construction in Two Women's Autobiographies	373
24	Clothing as an Expression of History: The Dress of African-American Women in Georgia, 1880-1915	393
25	"Civilization," the Decline of Middle-Class Manliness, and Ida B. Wells's Antilynching Campaign (1892-94)	407
26	Black Club Women and the Creation of the National Association of Colored Women	433
27	Black and White Visions of Welfare: Women's Welfare Activism, 1890-1945	449
28	Discontented Black Feminists: Prelude and Postscript to the Passage of the Nineteenth Amendment	487
29	The Black Community and the Birth Control Movement	505
30	And Still I Rise: Black Women and Reform, Buffalo, New York, 1900-1940	521
31	"We All Seem Like Brothers and Sisters": The African-American Community in Manhattan, Kansas, 1865-1940	543
32	Black Women Activists and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: The Case of Ruby Doris Smith Robinson	561
	Notes on Editors and Contributors	579
	Copyrights and Permissions	585
	Index	589