About the Author

Noralee Frankel is the Assistant Director, Women, Minorities, and Teaching at the American Historical Association. Her books include Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi and Break Those Chains at Last: African Americans, 1860-1880 (OUP, 1996). She lives in the Washington, D.C, area.

Reviews

Frankel's thoroughness is admirable. Amy Larocca, London Review of Books. Impeccably researched...highly readable. Emmanuelle Smith, Financial Times It's quiet a page turner. Susan Elkin, Independent on Sunday Her's is a fascinating story... admirably revealed in this endlessly fascinating biography of an extraordinary woman and her 40-year career. Peter Burton, Daily Express