{"product_id":"2940149320318","title":"Beloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Civil War Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868, Historical African-American Memoirs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeloved Sisters and Loving Friends: Civil War Letters from Rebecca Primus of Royal Oak, Maryland, and Addie Brown of Hartford, Connecticut, 1854-1868, Historical African-American Memoirs\u003c\/i\u003e is rare glimpse into the lives of African-American women in New York, New England and the south during the Civil War era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca Primus, the daughter of a prominent black Hartford family, traveled south after the Civil War to teach the newly freed men and women. Addie Brown--a bright, spirited, intelligent woman--was a domestic servant who worked in various households in Connecticut and New York. Over one-hundred-thirty years later these civil war letters were discovered, offering invaluable first-hand accounts of the female black experience in the American north and south during its Reconstruction. Edited and with an introduction,  notes and commentary by one of the foremost African-American authors and scholars of our time, Farah Jasmine Griffin, \u003ci\u003eBeloved Sisters and Loving Friends\u003c\/i\u003e brings to light many new details that have been missing in American historical biographies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe letters Rebecca Primus wrote to her family reveal her confrontations with southern prejudice, her struggles to educate the freedmen, the practical effects of the politics of Reconstruction, and every-day events of life in Royal Oak, Maryland. The letters Addie Brown wrote to Rebecca from the north chronicle her struggles to make a living, her self-education, her growing political consciousness and, always, her enduring love for Rebecca, a love complicated by the courtship of men whom she feels compelled to consider for reasons of economic security.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This collection of the personal correspondence of two young African American women during one of the most pivotal periods in U.S. history,\" wrote \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, \"provides not only a candid look at their relationship with each other, but also a new perspective for understanding the complexity of the social, political, economic, and cultural climate of the period.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Author \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108932108528,"sku":"2940149320318","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149320318_p0.jpg?v=1763714950","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149320318","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}