TY - BOOK AU - Dunbar,Erica Armstrong ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - A fragile freedom: African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city T2 - Society and the sexes in the modern world AV - F158.9.N4 D86 2008 U1 - 973.7/1140974811 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - African American women KW - Pennsylvania KW - Philadelphia KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Social conditions KW - Free African Americans KW - Slaves KW - Emancipation KW - Antislavery movements KW - Slavery KW - Philadelphia (Pa.) KW - Race relations KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3420515 ER -