In this compelling study of the early republic, Dunbar probes and illuminates the private and public lives of black women-their friendships as well as their social and political activism in community-institution building and in efforts of interracial cooperation. This important book portrays in rich detail the progress and problems that black women faced as they endeavored to fashion a city of not only brotherly, but sisterly love.” “With amazing new sources, Erica Armstrong Dunbar's A Fragile Freedom recasts the history of black Philadelphians in a completely new and gendered light. Erica Armstrong Dunbar demonstrates that it is possible to write a history of free black women in the antebellum period that addresses both political and personal issues. This is important social history of the first order.” “A Fragile Freedom is one of the most important works in black women’s history in the last twenty years.
Kathryn Kish Sklar, author of Women’s Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement “Dunbar’s pathbreaking book compellingly recreates the community of African American women and their families, friendships, and alliances in antebellum Philadelphia. A major contribution and a joy to read.” Christine Stansell, Princeton University “A jewel of an emerging scholarship on free blacks in the antebellum period.”
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