![]() ![]() While there is deep pain associated with these topics, I marvel at the incredible triumph of survival and the beautiful history of resistance. My writing, teaching, and lecturing focus on the uncomfortable concepts of slavery, racial injustice, and gender inequality. ![]() I followed my interests and my heart- I became a historian of the African American experience and I committed myself to telling the stories of black women who lived, loved, struggled, worked, prayed, and fought to survive in a nation that still recognized many of them as property. By the age of twenty-one, I began my formal journey to the historical profession, eventually receiving my MA and PhD from Columbia University. I attended the University of Pennsylvania where I received my BA in the departments of History and what was then called the Department of Afro-American Studies. I sat in small classrooms at my Philadelphia Quaker school and found myself more and more attracted to what I called “true stories” or what I would later recognize as the field of history. When I was a young girl I would read for hours at a time, completely captivated and lost between the covers of a book. ![]()
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