Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross, two award-winning historians, compile over four hundred years of Black women's stories, highlighting the versatility of their experiences and celebrating Black womanhood and resilience, from past to present. Showcasing their lives in all their fraught complexities, the result is a starting point for exploring Black women's history and a testament to the beauty, richness, tragedy, rage, and joy of their lives. To understand Black women's history is to know America's history.

Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross.

"With a revised afterword"-- from cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-256) and index.