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Author Dunbar, Erica Armstrong.

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

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
©2008
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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  F158.9.N4 D86 2008    Available  ---
Description xvi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Society and the sexes in the modern world
Society and the sexes in the modern world.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Subject African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
African American women.
Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Social conditions.
Free African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Free African Americans.
Free African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- British colonies.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- French colonies.
Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements.
Slavery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
Slavery.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 9780300125917 cloth alkaline paper
0300125917 cloth alkaline paper

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