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Sherman Library	F158.9.N4 D86 2008		AVAILABLE

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Author	Dunbar, Erica Armstrong.
Title	A fragile freedom : African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city / Erica Armstrong Dunbar.
OCLC	173135731
ISBN	9780300125917 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0300125917 (cloth : alk. paper)
Publisher	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2008]
	�2008
Description	xvi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
LC Subject heading/s	African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
	African American women -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Free African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
	Free African Americans -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
	Antislavery movements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century.
	Slavery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History.
	Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- 19th century.
	Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
	Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

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