A fragile freedom African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city / [electronic resource] :
Erica Armstrong Dunbar.
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
- xvi, 196 p. : ill.
- Society and the sexes in the modern world .
- Society and the sexes in the modern world. .
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.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century. Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions--19th century. Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations--History--19th century.