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A Fragile Freedom
A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City | Erica Armstrong Dunbar
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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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#uncannyoctober day 24 - diverse nonfiction

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#JubilantJuly Day 2 - Best Reads of 2017 So Far

A little #BookSpinePoetry featuring some of my favorite reads this year

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#MayBookFlowers Day 1 - May's Most Anticipated

After reading (and loving) her latest book about the flight of Ona Judge, one of George Washington's slaves, I decided to take a deep dive into Erica Dunbar's early history of African American women in Philadelphia.

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