TY - BOOK AU - Dunbar,Erica Armstrong ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - A fragile freedom: African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city T2 - Society and the sexes in the modern world AV - F158.9.N4 D86 2008eb U1 - 973.7/1140974811 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - African American women KW - Pennsylvania KW - Philadelphia KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Social conditions KW - Free African Americans KW - Slaves KW - Emancipation KW - Antislavery movements KW - Slavery KW - Philadelphia (Pa.) KW - Race relations KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-187) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10348409 ER -