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

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:

xvi, 196 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

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:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.

ISBN:

9780300125917 (cloth : alk. paper)

0300125917 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

173135731

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