{"product_id":"the-reconstruction-diary-of-frances-frances-anne-rollin-9781469690018","title":"The Reconstruction Diary of Frances Anne Rollin: A Critical Edition","description":"In 1867, Frances Anne Rollin, a Black writer and teacher from South Carolina, traveled to Boston to seek a publisher for her biography of famed Black abolitionist, writer, and Civil War veteran Martin R. Delany--the first full-length biography written by an African American. Beginning in January 1868, Rollin kept a diary while in Boston documenting her progression on Delany's biography, negotiations with publishers, visits from friends, attendance at lectures and readings, and her marriage to William J. Whipper, a Black politician and jurist. Rollin's diary is one of the earliest known diaries by a Southern Black woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this critical edition Jennifer Putzi offers the first complete transcription and annotation of Rollin's diary, along with a robust introduction providing important biographical, historical, cultural, and literary contexts for readers. Rollin's diary provides one of the fullest pictures of an African American woman as an author, activist, and well-connected and politically involved individual during the Reconstruction era--filling a gap in the literature and scholarly analysis of such preserved works by nineteenth-century African American women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frances Anne Rollin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469690012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469690018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d","brand":"Frances Anne Rollin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46807224058111,"sku":"9781469690018","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_df1b7e05-65e4-4860-92aa-9ef7d4cb4610.jpg?v=1745378872","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-reconstruction-diary-of-frances-frances-anne-rollin-9781469690018","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}