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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 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.
Series: Society and the Sexes in the Modern Worl
Paperback: 216 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press (April 15, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 030017702X
ISBN-13: 978-0300177022
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
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Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #496,410 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #80 in Books > History > Americas > United States > Civil War > Women #2042 in Books > History > World > Women in History #2834 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Social Sciences > Specific Demographics > African-American Studies
The book was excellent.
6/22/09 the contents of author Dunbar's book is described in much detail via a ques. and ans. interview on the Comcast Cable "community programs' of Pennsylvania's Book Tours. According to Dunbar, her book focuses on the slavery environment in the North (especially in Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland and Delaware) and the period of time:its inception in America,in the 1700's almost a century prior to the Civil War), and inclusive of "the whys"(aka reasons)besides the obvious "ethical reasons", for the end of slavery for slaves of African descent,especially with Pennsylvania laws which began their attrition out of slavery in most cases(around age 28) much due to the Quaker influence. Another book on that topic & "geography(the north/but in Haley's book also in the south) Alex Haley's book ,a fiction,"A Different kind of Christmas)does much on the environment(especially the Quakers) in Philadelphia using a free black(a male of African descent)who became a successful entrepreneur...Dunbar's non fiction obviously reflects much research in this nonfiction work and how it affected the lives and psyche of many.
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