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

Author/creator Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
Format Book
Publication InfoNew Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxvi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
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. --Pennsylvania. --Pennsylvania. --Philadelphia. --History.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History. --19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions. --19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations. --History. --19th century.

SeriesSociety and the sexes in the modern world
Society and the sexes in the modern world. ^A769091
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.
LCCN 2007036454
ISBN9780300125917 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0300125917 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks F 158.9.B53 D86 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold