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

A fragile freedom : African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city / Erica Armstrong Dunbar.

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 t...

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Main Author: Dunbar, Erica Armstrong
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008.
Series:Society and the sexes in the modern world.
Subjects:
1800-1899
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 > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History.
HISTORY.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
African American women
African American women > Social conditions
Antislavery movements
Free African Americans
Free African Americans > Social conditions
Race relations
Slavery
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
Social conditions
Stadt
Soziale Situation
Weibliche Freigelassene
Frau
African American women > History. > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia
USA > Nordstaaten
Schwärze
History
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