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Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth Century African American Women (review)

Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth Century African American Women (review) 406 Biography 25.2 (Spring 2002) until after the first generation reached maturity to complete, it had agoniz- ing consequences. First, the South could never adequately articulate an ide- ology that reflected the changing world of the nineteenth century and still defend its peculiar institution. Second, the North asserted itself and defined national identity as a free society of individuals. The result was the cataclysm of the American Civil War. Paul Gilje Joycelyn Moody. Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth- Century African American Women. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2001. 208 pp. ISBN 0-8203-2236-9, $40.00. In his Foreword to The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers (1988), Henry Louis Gates, Jr., wrote that “Until now it has been extraordinarily difficult to establish the formal connections between early black women’s writing and that of the present, precisely because our knowledge of their work has been broken and sporadic” (1988, xi; 1991, xvii). Gates also observed that without the republication of these women’s writings, “a significant segment of the black tradition” would have “remain[ed] silent” (xxii). That the publication of the thirty-volume collec- tion (1988) and the ten-volume supplement (1991) of nineteenth century Black women’s writings has indeed made these women’s http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biography University of Hawai'I Press

Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth Century African American Women (review)

Fultz, Lucille P.
Biography , Volume 25 (2) – Mar 1, 2002
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406 Biography 25.2 (Spring 2002) until after the first generation reached maturity to complete, it had agoniz- ing consequences. First, the South could never adequately articulate an ide- ology that reflected the changing world of the nineteenth century and still defend its peculiar institution. Second, the North asserted itself and defined national identity as a free society of individuals. The result was the cataclysm of the American Civil War. Paul Gilje Joycelyn Moody. Sentimental Confessions: Spiritual Narratives of Nineteenth- Century African American Women. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2001. 208 pp. ISBN 0-8203-2236-9, $40.00. In his Foreword to The Schomburg Library of Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers (1988), Henry Louis Gates, Jr., wrote that “Until now it has been extraordinarily difficult to establish the formal connections between early black women’s writing and that of the present, precisely because our knowledge of their work has been broken and sporadic” (1988, xi; 1991, xvii). Gates also observed that without the republication of these women’s writings, “a significant segment of the black tradition” would have “remain[ed] silent” (xxii). That the publication of the thirty-volume collec- tion (1988) and the ten-volume supplement (1991) of nineteenth century Black women’s writings has indeed made these women’s

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