![]() | A Respectable Woman: The Public Roles of African American Women in 19th-Century New York Subjects: African American women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions -- 19th century; African American women -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century; African American women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Political activity --; 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. Dabel Jane E. : Jane E. Dabel is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach. |
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