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The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman (review)

The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman (review) Anastatia Sims Southern Cultures, Volume 1, Number 2, Winter 1995, pp. 253-255 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1995.0076 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/425949/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 14:58 GMT from JHU Libraries Reviews253 other prominent blacks and a white Northerner after having made what local white men considered an "incendiary speech about the white people putting them in slavery." And the list goes on. Freedom's Lawmakers is an extraordinarily valuable reference source, not only as a place to find the details of a particular black officeholder's life, but also as a collective por- trait of a regional black leadership, the first in the South's history. It is on the latter score, however, that Foner falters somewhat. The generalizations he draws are for the most part strictly descriptive. What the dynamics of that emerging regional leadership might have been is left to the reader to infer. Foner, for example, draws attention to the diversity of experience among black officeholders but does not comment on what that diversity meant to black communities throughout the South. On the one hand, the region might have produced a variety of leaders who brought several constituencies http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

The Letters of a Victorian Madwoman (review)

Sims, Anastatia.
Southern Cultures , Volume 1 (2) – Jan 4, 2012
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Anastatia Sims Southern Cultures, Volume 1, Number 2, Winter 1995, pp. 253-255 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1995.0076 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/425949/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 14:58 GMT from JHU Libraries Reviews253 other prominent blacks and a white Northerner after having made what local white men considered an "incendiary speech about the white people putting them in slavery." And the list goes on. Freedom's Lawmakers is an extraordinarily valuable reference source, not only as a place to find the details of a particular black officeholder's life, but also as a collective por- trait of a regional black leadership, the first in the South's history. It is on the latter score, however, that Foner falters somewhat. The generalizations he draws are for the most part strictly descriptive. What the dynamics of that emerging regional leadership might have been is left to the reader to infer. Foner, for example, draws attention to the diversity of experience among black officeholders but does not comment on what that diversity meant to black communities throughout the South. On the one hand, the region might have produced a variety of leaders who brought several constituencies

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