Notes from a Colored Girl

This historical biography provides a scholarly analysis of the personal diaries of a young, freeborn mulatto woman during the Civil War years.

In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis through a close reading of three pocket diaries she kept from 1863 to 1865. Whitehead explores Davis’s worldviews and politics, her perceptions of...