A fragile freedom : African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city /

Chronicling the lives of African American women in the urban north of America (particularly Philadelphia) during the early years of the republic, 'A Fragile Freedom' investigates how they journeyed from enslavement to the precarious state of 'free persons' in the decades before t...

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Main Author:	Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008.
Series:	Society and the sexes in the modern world.
Subjects:	African American women > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century. African American women > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions > 19th century. Free African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century. Free African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions > 19th century. Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History. Antislavery movements > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century. Slavery > Pennsylvania > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History. Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > 19th century. Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions > 19th century. Philadelphia (Pa.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
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