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Notes from a Colored Girl

by Karsonya Wise Whitehead
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This historical biography provides a scholarly analysis of the personal diaries of a young, freeborn mulatto woman during the Civil War years.
In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis through a close reading of three pocket diaries she kept from 1863 to 1865. Whitehead explores Davis's worldviews and politics, her perceptions of both public and private events, her personal relationships, and her place in Philadelphia's free black community in the nineteenth century. The book also includes a six-chapter historical reconstruction of Davis's life.
While Davis's entries provide brief, daily snapshots of her life, Whitehead interprets them in ways that illuminate nineteenth-century black American women's experiences. Whitehead's contribution of edited text and original narrative fills a void in scholarly documentation of women who dwelled in spaces between white elites, black entrepreneurs, and urban dwellers of every race and class.
Drawing on scholarly traditions from history, literature, feminist studies, and sociolinguistics, Whitehead investigates Davis's diary both as a complete literary artifact and in terms of her specific daily entries. With few primary sources written by black women during this time in history, Davis's diary is a rare and extraordinarily valuable historical artifact.
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Biography & Autobiography History African American Nonfiction Nonfiction

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This historical biography provides a scholarly analysis of the personal diaries of a young, freeborn mulatto woman during the Civil War years.
In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis through a close reading of three pocket diaries she kept from 1863 to 1865. Whitehead explores Davis's worldviews and politics, her perceptions of both public and private events, her personal relationships, and her place in Philadelphia's free black community in the nineteenth century. The book also includes a six-chapter historical reconstruction of Davis's life.
While Davis's entries provide brief, daily snapshots of her life, Whitehead interprets them in ways that illuminate nineteenth-century black American women's experiences. Whitehead's contribution of edited text and original narrative fills a void in scholarly documentation of women who dwelled in spaces between white elites, black entrepreneurs, and urban dwellers of every race and class.
Drawing on scholarly traditions from history, literature, feminist studies, and sociolinguistics, Whitehead investigates Davis's diary both as a complete literary artifact and in terms of her specific daily entries. With few primary sources written by black women during this time in history, Davis's diary is a rare and extraordinarily valuable historical artifact.
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Biography & Autobiography History African American Nonfiction Nonfiction