A fragile freedom : African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city /

A fragile freedom : African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city / Erica Armstrong Dunbar.

"This book is the first to chronicle the lives of African American women in the urban North during the early years of the republic. A Fragile Freedom investigates how African American women in Philadelphia journeyed from enslavement to the precarious status of "free persons" in the de...

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Main Author: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
Series:Society and the sexes in the modern world.
Subjects:
African American women > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
African American women > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Antislavery movements > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Slavery > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
Simmons University. > Library. > Gifts. Davis
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.

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Call Number: F158.9.N4 D86 2008
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