A Respectable Woman: The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York

by Jane Dabel

In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigration, the growth of a native-born population, and the expansion of one of the largest African American communities in the North. New York's free blacks were extremely politically active, lobbying for equal rights at home and an end to Southern slavery. As their activism increased, so did discrimination against them, most brutally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814720110
• ISBN13: 9780814720110
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 8.9"