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Author Dunbar, Erica Armstrong.
Title A fragile freedom [electronic resource] : African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city / Erica Armstrong Dunbar.
OCLC EBC3420515
ISBN 9780300125917 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300125917 (cloth : alk. paper)
Publisher New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 196 p.) : ill.
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.
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Genre heading/s		 Electronic books
Bibliography 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.
Reproduction note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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