A fragile freedom : African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city
Chronicling the lives of African American women in the urban north of America (particularly Philadelphia) during the early years of the republic, 'A Fragile Freedom' investigates how they journeyed from enslavement to the precarious state of 'free persons' in the decades before the Civil War
History
1 online resource (xvi, 196 pages) : illustrations
9780300145069, 9781282352353, 9781282089402, 0300145063, 1282352350, 1282089404
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Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
In English
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