A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City
“This book is the first to chronicle the lives of African American women in the urban north during the early years of the republic. A …
On the Edge of Freedom: The Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania
“An engagingly written, meticulously documented study of antislavery ferment just north of the Mason-Dixon line in a region of geographical, economic, cultural, and historical ‘edges’. …