04434nam 22007815 450 991077809390332120230324004611.097866123523551-282-35235-00-300-14506-31-282-08940-4978661208940410.12987/9780300145069(CKB)1000000000764816(StDuBDS)BDZ0022168138(SSID)ssj0000157770(PQKBManifestationID)11155895(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000157770(PQKBWorkID)10139567(PQKB)10836730(StDuBDS)EDZ0000157744(MiAaPQ)EBC3420515(DE-B1597)485170(OCoLC)1024005698(DE-B1597)9780300145069(EXLCZ)99100000000076481620200424h20082008 fg engur|||||||||||txtccrA Fragile Freedom African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City /Erica Armstrong DunbarNew Haven, CT :Yale University Press,[2008]©20081 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 196 p.) )illSociety and the Sexes in the Modern WorldBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-12591-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index.Frontmatter --Contents --Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Slavery and the "Holy Experiment" --2. Maneuvering Manumission in Philadelphia: African American Women and Indentured Servitude --3. Creating Black Philadelphia: African American Women and Their Neighborhoods --4. Voices from the Margins: The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society 1833-1840 --5. Writing for Womanhood: African American Women and Print Culture --6. A Mental and Moral Feast: Reading, Writing, and Sentimentality in Black Philadelphia --Conclusion --Notes --Bibliography --IndexThis book is the first to chronicle the lives of African American women in the urban north during the early years of the republic. A Fragile Freedom investigates how African American women in Philadelphia journeyed from enslavement to the precarious status of "free persons" in the decades leading up to the Civil War and examines comparable developments in the cities of New York and Boston. Erica Armstrong Dunbar argues that early nineteenth-century Philadelphia, where most African Americans were free, enacted a kind of rehearsal for the national emancipation that followed in the post-Civil War years. She explores the lives of the "regular" women of antebellum Philadelphia, the free black institutions that took root there, and the previously unrecognized importance of African American women to the history of American cities.Society and the sexes in the modern world.African American womenPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaHistory19th centuryAfrican American womenPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaSocial conditions19th centuryFree African AmericansPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaHistory19th centuryFree African AmericansPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaSocial conditions19th centuryEnslaved personsEmancipationPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaHistoryAntislavery movementsPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaHistory19th centurySlaveryPennsylvaniaPhiladelphiaHistoryPhiladelphia (Pa.)History19th centuryPhiladelphia (Pa.)Social conditions19th centuryPhiladelphia (Pa.)Race relationsHistory19th centuryAfrican American womenHistoryAfrican American womenSocial conditionsFree African AmericansHistoryFree African AmericansSocial conditionsEnslaved personsEmancipationHistory.Antislavery movementsHistorySlaveryHistory.973.7/1140974811Dunbar Erica Armstrongauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1576397DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910778093903321A Fragile Freedom3854160UNINA