Bøker av Nell Irvin (Princeton University) Painter

A New York Times bestseller: "This terrific new book . . . [explores] the 'notion of whiteness,' an idea as dangerous as it is seductive."-Boston Globe

A monumental biography of one of the most important black women of the nineteenth century.

"A consistently engrossing, occasionally irreverent, always smoothly written history of America's painful entry into the modern age."-Kirkus Reviews