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A fragile freedom : African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city / Erica Armstrong Dunbar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunbar, Erica Armstrong.
- Series:
- Society and the sexes in the modern world.
- Society and the sexes in the modern world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
- African American women.
- African American women--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Social conditions--19th century.
- 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.
- Antislavery movements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- Slavery--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
- Slavery.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions--19th century.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 196 p.) ) ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is the first to chronicle the lives of African American women in the urban north during the early years of the republic. A Fragile Freedom investigates how African American women in Philadelphia journeyed from enslavement to the precarious status of "free persons" in the decades leading up to the Civil War and examines comparable developments in the cities of New York and Boston. Erica Armstrong Dunbar argues that early nineteenth-century Philadelphia, where most African Americans were free, enacted a kind of rehearsal for the national emancipation that followed in the post-Civil War years. She explores the lives of the "regular" women of antebellum Philadelphia, the free black institutions that took root there, and the previously unrecognized importance of African American women to the history of American cities.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612352355
- 9786612089404
- 9781282352353
- 1282352350
- 9780300145069
- 0300145063
- 9781282089402
- 1282089404
- OCLC:
- 1024005698
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