Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910 by Kali N. Gross

Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910

Politics, History, and Culture

Kali N. Gross

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nonfiction history
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Colored Amazons is a groundbreaking historical analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. Kali N. Gross reconstructs black women's crimes and their representations in...

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