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Author:

Dunbar, Erica Armstrong

Title:

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

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xvi, 196 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

African American women--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
African American women--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--Social conditions--19th century.
Free African Americans--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
Free African Americans--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--Social conditions--19th century.
Slaves--History.--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--History.
Antislavery movements--Philadelphia--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
Slavery--Philadelphia--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions--19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--History--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.

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.

Series:

Society and the sexes in the modern world

ISBN:

0300125917 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300125917 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)173135731

LCCN:

2007036454

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)