A Fragile Freedom (Society and the Sexes in the Modern World)

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This book is the primary to chronicle the lives of African American ladies within the urban north throughout the early years of the republic. A Fragile Freedom investigates how African American ladies in Philadelphia journeyed from enslavement to the precarious status of “free persons” within the decades leading as much as the Civil War and examines comparable developments within the towns of New York and Boston.

 

Erica Armstrong Dunbar argues that early nineteenth-century Philadelphia, where so much African American citizens were free, enacted one of those rehearsal for the national emancipation that followed within the post–Civil War years. She explores the lives of the “regular” ladies of antebellum Philadelphia, the free black institutions that took root there, and the prior to now unrecognized importance of African American ladies to the history of American towns.

 

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