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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.
- Charleston (S.C.)--History--1775-1865.
- Charleston (S.C.).
- Charleston (S.C.)--Social conditions--19th century.
- Charleston (S.C.)--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (282 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, defined, and defended their own vision of freedom. Drawing on legislative and judicial materials, probate data, tax lists, church records, family papers, and more, Myers creates detailed portraits of individual women while exploring how black female Charlestonians sought to create a fuller freedom by improving their financial, social, an
- 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908828-1-3
- 979-88-908828-2-0
- 1-4696-0259-8
- 0-8078-6909-0
- OCLC:
- 767952992
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