Forging freedom Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston /

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Hlavní autor: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti
Korporativní autor: ebrary, Inc
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Edice:Gender & American culture.
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Obsah:
  • Introduction : imagining freedom in the slave South
  • City of contrasts : Charleston before the Civil War
  • A way out of no way : Black women and manumission
  • To survive and thrive : race, sex, and waged labor in the city
  • The currency of citizenship : property ownership and Black female freedom
  • A tale of two women : the lives of Cecille Cogdell and Sarah Sanders
  • A fragile freedom : the story of Margaret Bettingall and her daughters
  • Epilogue : the continuing search for freedom.