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To live an antislavery life : personal politics and the antebellum Black middle class Erica L. Ball
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 185.18 .B35 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ball, Erica L., 1971-
- Series:
- Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free African Americans--History--19th century.
- Free African Americans.
- Free African Americans--Social conditions--19th century.
- Free African Americans--Attitudes--History--19th century.
- Citizenship--United States--History--19th century.
- Citizenship.
- Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century.
- Antislavery movements.
- United States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 175 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2012.
- Contents:
- African American advice literature and Black middle-class self-fashioning
- Slave narratives and the Black self-made man
- Antislavery discourse and the African American family
- Domestic literature and the antislavery household
- Transnationalism, revolution, and the Anglo-African magazine on the eve of the Civil War.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.
- ISBN:
- 9780820343501 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0820343501 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- OCLC:
- 778990793
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