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Main Author:	Dunbar, Erica Armstrong.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
Series:	Society and the sexes in the modern world
Subjects and Genres:	African American women > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century. African American women > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions > 19th century. Free African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century. Free African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social conditions > 19th century. Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History. Antislavery movements > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century. Slavery > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History. Philadelphia (Pa.) > History > 19th century. Philadelphia (Pa.) > Social conditions > 19th century. Philadelphia (Pa.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:

Slavery and the "holy experiment"
Maneuvering manumission in Philadelphia : African American women and indentured servitude
Creating Black Philadelphia : African American women and their neighborhoods
Voices from the margins : the Philadelphia female anti-slavery society, 1833-1840
Writing for womanhood : African American women and print culture
A mental and moral feast : reading, writing, and sentimentality in Black Philadelphia.