Finding Sarah and Mary

JACQUELINE JONES ROYSTER is professor emerita at the Ohio State University and Georgia Institute of Technology. She is the author and coauthor of several books, including Traces of a Stream: Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women; Making the World a Better Place: African American Women Advocates, Activists, and Leaders, 1773–1900; and Feminist Rhetorical Studies: New Horizons for Rhetoric, Composition, and Literacy and Double-Stitch: Black Women Write About Mothers and Daughters. She is also the editor of Southern Horrors and Other Writings: The Anti-Lynching Campaign of Ida B. Wells, 1892–1900 and Critical Inquiries: Readings on Culture and Community. She lives and writes in Atlanta.

Presented with care, nuance, grace, and rigor, Finding Sarah and Mary goes beyond academic research, inviting readers into a compelling story of ancestral discovery, and in the process, offering profound new insights into our nation’s history.