A Fragile Freedom

by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030017702X
• ISBN13: 9780300177022
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"