| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

Black Women in Texas History. Ed. by Bruce A. Glasrud and Merline Pitre. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. viii, 248 pp. Cloth, $40.00, ISBN 978-1-60344-007-3. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-1-60344-031-8.)
Beginning with the Spanish period and extending to the year 2000, this collection of essays is useful primarily as a guide to resources for the history of black women in Texas. The chronological organization is particularly convenient for class assignments and makes the articles readily accessible for reference and research. The contributors include eight historians and two political scientists; three of the historians are trained in women's history.	1
With the sparse original sources available for the period before 1865, Angela Boswell has integrated studies from other states to build an account of the experience of African American women, both free and slave, in Texas. The endnotes for her essay, "Black Women during Slavery to 1865," are exhaustive and often include explanatory comments. By contrast, James M. Smallwood and the late Barry A. Crouch had a rich body of primary materials for their survey, "Texas Freedwomen during Reconstruction, 1865–1874." With emphasis on suffering and tragedy—discrimination, injustice, violence, and white terrorism—these authors give relatively little attention to African American women's work, whether in maintaining homes and families or in the ways they found in their churches the base upon which to build the organizations that sustained their communities.	. . .

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