Read the excerpt below from cooper's essay to answer the question. the earnest well trained christian young woman, as a teacher, as a home-maker, as wife, mother, or silent influence even, is as potent a missionary agency among our people as is the theologian; and i claim that at the present stage of our development in the south she is even more important and necessary. let us then, here and now, recognize this force and resolve to make the most of it--not the boys less, but the girls more (p 79). in the excerpt above, the word our refers to african americans african american women americans