A fragile freedom : African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city /
"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 de...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2008]
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Series: | Society and the sexes in the modern world.
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