All bound up together: the woman question in African American public culture, 1830-1900 (1st edition.)

The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars.

This book explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements, and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership.

It reveals how, through the 19th century, the 'woman question' was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.

The book explains that, like white women activists, who often created their own institutions separate from men, black women often organized within already existing institutions: churches, political organizations, mutual aid societies, and schools.