
In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America
- Author
- Kabria Baumgartner
- Content
- xi + 287 pp., ill., bibl., index
- Publication date
- 2019
- Publisher
- New York: New York University Press
- Description
- Focuses on the northeastern United States and students and teachers including Serena deGrasse, Sarah Mapps Douglass, Charlotte Forten, Sarah Harris, Mary E. Miles, Rosetta Morrison, Susan Paul, and Sarah Parker Remond.
- Main subject
- Education
History
Politics
Sociology and Social Issues - ISBN
- 9781479823116 (cloth); 9781479816729 (pap.); 9781479802579 (ebook)
- Citation
- Baumgartner, Kabria. In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America. New York: New York University Press, 2019. Sylvia. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1989.
- Updated
- 04-18-2022
Publication Information
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Journal of African American History 106.2 (2021): 346–47
Journal of the Early Republic 41.2 (2021): 316–19
New England Quarterly 94.2 (2021): 284–86
Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 50.6 (2021): 651–52