Black Female Intellectuals in Nineteenth Century America: Born to Bloom Unseen?

Twenty years ago, at the start of his monumental Conjectures of Order, Michael O’Brien suggested that ‘intellectual history is not a democratic venture,’ and was, therefore, ‘somewhat illegitimate in the modern discipline of history, which has made much of the moral importance of inclusiveness and equality.’[1] Rebecca Fraser’s Black Female Intellectuals in Nineteenth Century America:Continue reading “Black Female Intellectuals in Nineteenth Century America: Born to Bloom Unseen?”

Gold and Swingler

Katrina Goldstone reviews two biographies of neglected writers, which demonstrate there is still much to be learned about the influence of writers, political commitment, and the 1930s on broader intellectual histories.