Forging freedom : Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston / Amrita Chakrabarti Myers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti.

Series:

Gender & American culture

Gender and American culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--South Carolina--Charleston--History--19th century.

African American women.

African American women--South Carolina--Charleston--Social conditions--19th century.

Freed persons--South Carolina--Charleston--History--19th century.

Freed persons.

Freed persons--South Carolina--Charleston--Social conditions--19th century.

Social conditions.

History.

Charleston (S.C.)--History--1775-1865.

Charleston (S.C.).

Charleston (S.C.)--Social conditions--19th century.

Charleston (S.C.)--Race relations--History--19th century.

South Carolina--Charleston.

Physical Description:

xi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780807835050

0807835056

OCLC:

711043275