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

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

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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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Table of 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.

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