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

Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti
Awdur Corfforaethol: ebrary, Inc
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Cyfres:Gender & American culture.
Pynciau:
Mynediad Ar-lein:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Tagiau: Ychwanegu Tag
Dim Tagiau, Byddwch y cyntaf i dagio'r cofnod hwn!
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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.