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

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Autor principal: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Recurso Electrónico livro electrónico
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Colecção:Gender & American culture.
Assuntos:
African American women > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
African American women > South Carolina > Charleston > Social conditions > 19th century.
Freedmen > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
Freedmen > South Carolina > Charleston > Social conditions > 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) > History > 1775-1865.
Charleston (S.C.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
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Sumário:
  • 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.

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