A fragile freedom: African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city

A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-196

  Dunbar, Erica Armstrong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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