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A fragile freedom : African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city
- Title
- A fragile freedom : African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city / Erica Armstrong Dunbar.
- Author
- Dunbar, Erica Armstrong.
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 196 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Society and the sexes in the modern world
- Subjects
- Free African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions > 19th century
- African American women > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions > 19th century
- African American women > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century
- Philadelphia (Pa.) > Race relations > History > 19th century
- Slavery > Pennsylvania > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History
- Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions > 19th century
- Antislavery movements > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century
- Free African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century
- Slaves > Emancipation > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History
- Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > 19th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.
- Contents
- Slavery and the "holy experiment" -- Maneuvering manumission in Philadelphia : African American women and indentured servitude -- Creating Black Philadelphia : African American women and their neighborhoods -- Voices from the margins : the Philadelphia female anti-slavery society, 1833-1840 -- Writing for womanhood : African American women and print culture -- A mental and moral feast : reading, writing, and sentimentality in Black Philadelphia.
- Call Number
- Sc E 08-588
- ISBN
- 9780300125917 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0300125917 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007036454
- OCLC
- 173135731
- Author
- Dunbar, Erica Armstrong.
- Title
- A fragile freedom : African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city / Erica Armstrong Dunbar.
- Imprint
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
- Series
- Society and the sexes in the modern world
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 08-588