The essence of liberty : free black women during the slave era / Wilma King.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

King, Wilma, 1942-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Free African Americans--History.

Free African Americans.

African American women--History.

African American women.

History.

Free African Americans--Social conditions.

African American women--Social conditions.

Free African Americans--Intellectual life.

African American women--Intellectual life.

Intellectual life.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Liberty--History.

Liberty.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xvi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 290 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, 2006.

Contents:

"Full Liberty to go and live with whom & Where She may Chuse": Founts of Freedom

"This modest bending of the head": Gender Conventions, Expectations, and Misrepresentations

The Pursuit of Happiness: Work and Well-Being

"Knowledge is power": Educational and Cultural Achievements

"Whom do you serve, God or man?": Spiritualists and Reformers

"Female sympathy in the cause of freedom and humanity": Activists and Abolitionists

The Civil War and Emancipation: Freedom for All.

Notes:

"Designer: Jennifer Cropp."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-282) and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

ISBN:

0826216579

0826216609

OCLC:

62782112

Publisher Number:

9780826216571

9780826216601