Braided relations, entwined lives : the women of Charleston's urban slave society / Cynthia M. Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Cynthia M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--South Carolina--Charleston--History.

Women.

Women--South Carolina--Charleston--Social conditions.

African American women--South Carolina--Charleston--Social conditions.

African American women.

Charleston (S.C.)--Race relations--History.

Charleston (S.C.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""[A] stunning, deeply researched, and gracefully written social history."" -- Leslie Schwalm, University of Iowa This study of women in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, looks at the roles of women in an urban slave society. Cynthia M. Kennedy takes up issues of gender, race, condition (slave or free), and class and examines the ways each contributed to conveying and replicating power. She analyses what it meant to be a woman in a world where historically specific social classifications

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Place and the People; 2. Disorder and Chaos of War; 3. Rebuilding and Resisting; 4. Marriage and Cohabitation within the Aristocratic Paradigm:Wealthy White Women and the Free Brown Elite; 5. Marriage and Cohabitation outside the Aristocratic Paradigm:Slaves and Free Laboring Women; 6. Mixing and Admixtures; 7. Work and Workers; 8. Leisure and Recreation; 9. Women and the Law; 10. Illness and Death; Conclusion; Appendix 1. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land-WarrantApplications

Appendix 2. South Carolina Court System and the Case Universe Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-301) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07249-8

9786612072499

0-253-11146-3

OCLC:

475995027