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

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

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Main Author: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2011
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
African American women > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
African American women > South Carolina > Charleston > Social conditions > 19th century.
Freed persons > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
Freed persons > 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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Table of Contents:
  • 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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