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

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Autor principal: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti
Autor corporatiu: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Col·lecció:Gender & American culture.
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Taula de continguts:
  • 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.