A fragile freedom [electronic resource] : African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city / Erica Armstrong Dunbar.

By: Dunbar, Erica ArmstrongContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Society and the sexes in the modern worldPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008Description: xvi, 196 p. : illSubject(s): 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 | Slaves -- Emancipation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History | Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century | Slavery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 973.7/1140974811 LOC classification: F158.9.N4 | D86 2008Online resources: Click to View
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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