Jane E Dabel: 1 book
A Respectable Woman
The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2008
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,...
