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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| 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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| Online Access: | Full text (Emerson users only) Full text (Emmanuel users only) Full text (Emmanuel users only) Full text (NECO users only) Full text (MCPHS users only) Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Summary: | 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 the Civil War. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 196 pages) : illustrations |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300145069 0300145063 1282352350 9781282352353 1282089404 9781282089402 |