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

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.