A Fragile Freedom

A Fragile Freedom
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 9780300145069
ISBN-13 : 0300145063
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Book Synopsis A Fragile Freedom by : Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Download or read book A Fragile Freedom written by Erica Armstrong Dunbar and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the lives of African American women in the urban north of America (particularly Philadelphia) during the early years of the republic, 'A Fragile Freedom' investigates how they journeyed from enslavement to the precarious state of 'free persons' in the decades before the Civil War.


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