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A Respectable Woman: The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York

A Respectable Woman: The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York

Dabel, Jane E.

Hardcover

Black American StudiesRegional: Middle AtlanticWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0814720110
ISBN13: 9780814720110
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: May 10 2008
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.33 Depth: 8.95
Language: English

In the nineteenth century, New York City underwent a tremendous demographic transformation driven by European immigration, the growth of a native-born population, and the expansion of one of the largest African American communities in the North. New York's free blacks were extremely politically active, lobbying for equal rights at home and an end to Southern slavery. As their activism increased, so did discrimination against them, most brutally illustrated by bloody attacks during the 1863 New York City Draft Riots.

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