ANNE VALK is Associate Director for Programs of the John Nicholas Brown Centre, Brown University, USA.   LESLIE BROWN is Assistant Professor of History at Williams College, USA, and the author of Upbuilding Black Durham.

"An indispensible contribution to African American and women s history. Essential." - CHOICE

• Introduction: We Did Well With What We Had: Remembering Black Life behind the Veil Kin to Everybody: Childhood Crossing Over into another World: Personal Relationships across the Lifespan You are all under Bondage, which is True: Working Lives A Society Totally our Own: Institutional and Cultural Life in Black Communities I Like to Get Something Done: Fighting for Social and Political Change

ANNE VALK is Associate Director for Programs of the John Nicholas Brown Centre, Brown University, USA.   LESLIE BROWN is Assistant Professor of History at Williams College, USA, and the author of Upbuilding Black Durham.

"An indispensible contribution to African American and women s history. Essential." - CHOICE

• Introduction: We Did Well With What We Had: Remembering Black Life behind the Veil Kin to Everybody: Childhood Crossing Over into another World: Personal Relationships across the Lifespan You are all under Bondage, which is True: Working Lives A Society Totally our Own: Institutional and Cultural Life in Black Communities I Like to Get Something Done: Fighting for Social and Political Change

ANNE VALK is Associate Director for Programs of the John Nicholas Brown Centre, Brown University, USA.   LESLIE BROWN is Assistant Professor of History at Williams College, USA, and the author of Upbuilding Black Durham.

"An indispensible contribution to African American and women s history. Essential." - CHOICE

• Introduction: We Did Well With What We Had: Remembering Black Life behind the Veil Kin to Everybody: Childhood Crossing Over into another World: Personal Relationships across the Lifespan You are all under Bondage, which is True: Working Lives A Society Totally our Own: Institutional and Cultural Life in Black Communities I Like to Get Something Done: Fighting for Social and Political Change