Forging freedom Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston /
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Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2011.
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Schriftenreihe: | Gender & American culture.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.