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

Published New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008 ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 196 pages) : illustrations Series Society and the sexes in the modern world Society and the sexes in the modern world. 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 Summary Chronicling the lives of African American women in the urban north of America (particularly Philadelphia) during the early years of the republic, 'A Fragile Freedom' investigates how they journeyed from enslavement to the precarious state of 'free persons' in the decades before the Civil War Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject 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 -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History HISTORY. HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century. African American women African American women -- Social conditions Antislavery movements Free African Americans Free African Americans -- Social conditions Race relations Slavery Enslaved persons -- Emancipation Social conditions Stadt Soziale Situation Weibliche Freigelassene Frau African American women -- History. -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century. SUBJECT Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century Subject Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia USA -- Nordstaaten Schwärze Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2007036454 ISBN 9780300145069 0300145063 1282352350 9781282352353 1282089404 9781282089402

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