Forging freedom [electronic resource] : Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston / Amrita Chakrabarti Myers.
2011
F279.C49 N458 2011eb
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Forging freedom [electronic resource] : Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston / Amrita Chakrabarti Myers.
Author
Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti.
ISBN
9780807835050 (cloth alk. paper)
9780807869093 (e-book)
9780807869093 (e-book)
Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
xi, 267 p. : maps.
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F279.C49 N458 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.48/8960730757915
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Gender & American culture.
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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.
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.