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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
eBook, English, 2008
Yale University Press, New Haven, 2008
History
1 online resource (xvi, 196 pages) : illustrations
9780300145069, 9781282352353, 9781282089402, 0300145063, 1282352350, 1282089404
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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, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
In English