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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong. Fragile freedom. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2007036454 (OCoLC)173135731 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Erica Armstrong Dunbar |
ISBN: | 9780300145069 0300145063 1282352350 9781282352353 1282089404 9781282089402 |
OCLC Number: | 648671210 |
Language Note: | In English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 196 pages) : illustrations |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
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 Title: | Society and the sexes in the modern world. |
Responsibility: | Erica Armstrong Dunbar. |
Abstract:
Chronicle the lives of African American women in the urban north during the early years of the republic. This book investigates how African American women in Philadelphia journeyed from enslavement to the precarious status of 'free persons' in the decades leading up to the Civil War. It examines comparable developments in New York and Boston.
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