| Spiritual Interrogations: Culture, Gender, and Community in Early African American Women''s Writing Subjects: American literature -- Afro-American authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Christianity and literature -- United States -- History; Wo; The late eighteenth century witnessed an influx of black women to the slave-trading ports of the American Northeast. The formation of an early African American community, bound together by shared experiences and spiritual values, owed much to these women's voices. The significance of their writings would be profound for all African Americans' sense of their own identity as a people. Katherine Clay Bassard is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. Her articles have been published in African American Review and Callaloo. |