A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

212 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history race challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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This 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 precario...

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