... southern states that followed, provide the legal changes necessary for African Americans to enter the political arena as full participants for the first time and ushered in the period of Reconstruction. During this period, African American males achieved the right to register and vote, and they were elected and appointed to public office in significant numbers. African American women, like women generally ... ...

• Word Count: 486
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Graduate

... written about enslaved African American women is titled Ar'n't I a Woman by Deborah White. In it White discusses the dual prejudice of racism and sexism that black women of the antebellum period were burdened with. Since women were distinctively valued by slaveholders for their reproductive capacities, childcare and childbearing were inevitable responsibilities of the the female slave. Thus, motherhood gravely circumscribed their ... ...

• Word Count: 1150
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate