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A fragile freedom African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city /

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Main Author: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
Series:Society and the sexes in the modern world.
Subjects:
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.
Slaves > 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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Table of 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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