David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clark Hine's Beyond Bondage outlines the restricted spheres within which free women of color; by virtue of gender and racial restrictions; were forced to carve out their existences. Although their freedom; represented by the acquisition of property; respectability; and opportunity; always remained precarious; the collection supports the surprising conclusion that women of color often sought and obtained these advantages more successfully than their male counterparts.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. From HerndonBy Christian SchlectWilliam Herndon spent much of his adult life exploring the mind and personal history of his law partner; Abraham Lincoln; for the sake of an accurate historical record. Here is an extremely useful and interesting collection of Mr. Herndon's letters addressed not only to his co-author; Jesse W. Weik; but to many others seeking primary or interpretative information on the great president.How Mr. Lincoln's mind operated; the tangled skein of his ancestry; his political maneuvering for office; his hard home life with a difficult wife; and his skeptical thoughts on Christianity--all are explored in these articulate letters."I describe him to you as I saw him and knew him. I loved the man and worship; as it were his memory. I owe to truth a fidelity and mean to pursue that cause to the End."The editors of this volume of Herndon's letters;Douglas L. Wilson and Rodney O. Davis; are Lincoln scholars of the highest level. This book belongs in the library of all serious students of Abraham Lincoln.
