LEADER 04434nam 22007815 450 001 9910778093903321 005 20230324004611.0 010 $a9786612352355 010 $a1-282-35235-0 010 $a0-300-14506-3 010 $a1-282-08940-4 010 $a9786612089404 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300145069 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764816 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022168138 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000157770 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11155895 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000157770 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10139567 035 $a(PQKB)10836730 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000157744 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420515 035 $a(DE-B1597)485170 035 $a(OCoLC)1024005698 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300145069 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764816 100 $a20200424h20082008 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA Fragile Freedom $eAfrican American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City /$fErica Armstrong Dunbar 210 1$aNew Haven, CT :$cYale University Press,$d[2008] 210 4$dİ2008 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xvi, 196 p.) )$cill 225 0 $aSociety and the Sexes in the Modern World 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-12591-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Slavery and the "Holy Experiment" --$t2. Maneuvering Manumission in Philadelphia: African American Women and Indentured Servitude --$t3. Creating Black Philadelphia: African American Women and Their Neighborhoods --$t4. Voices from the Margins: The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society 1833-1840 --$t5. Writing for Womanhood: African American Women and Print Culture --$t6. A Mental and Moral Feast: Reading, Writing, and Sentimentality in Black Philadelphia --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aThis book is the first to chronicle the lives of African American women in the urban north during the early years of the republic. A Fragile Freedom investigates how African American women in Philadelphia journeyed from enslavement to the precarious status of "free persons" in the decades leading up to the Civil War and examines comparable developments in the cities of New York and Boston. Erica Armstrong Dunbar argues that early nineteenth-century Philadelphia, where most African Americans were free, enacted a kind of rehearsal for the national emancipation that followed in the post-Civil War years. She explores the lives of the "regular" women of antebellum Philadelphia, the free black institutions that took root there, and the previously unrecognized importance of African American women to the history of American cities. 410 0$aSociety and the sexes in the modern world. 606 $aAfrican American women$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAfrican American women$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aFree African Americans$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFree African Americans$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aEnslaved persons$xEmancipation$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory 606 $aAntislavery movements$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSlavery$zPennsylvania$zPhiladelphia$xHistory 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xSocial conditions$y19th century 607 $aPhiladelphia (Pa.)$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aAfrican American women$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican American women$xSocial conditions 615 0$aFree African Americans$xHistory 615 0$aFree African Americans$xSocial conditions 615 0$aEnslaved persons$xEmancipation$xHistory. 615 0$aAntislavery movements$xHistory 615 0$aSlavery$xHistory. 676 $a973.7/1140974811 700 $aDunbar$b Erica Armstrong$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01576397 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778093903321 996 $aA Fragile Freedom$93854160 997 $aUNINA