
Walda Katz-Fishman, Howard University "One by one, as her books appear, Wilma Dunaway breaks new ground. This book ranks with Drew Gilpin Faust's Mothers of Invention.". "Dunaway investigates the multi-ethnic majority of females who resided between 1700 and 1860 in the Appalachian Mountains from West Virginia south to Alabama and Virginia and the Carolinas east to Kentucky and Tennessee.".