Forging freedom [electronic resource] : Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston / Amrita Chakrabarti Myers.
Series: Gender & American culturePublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.Description: xi, 267 p. : mapsISBN:- 9780807835050 (cloth alk. paper)
- 9780807869093 (e-book)
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century
- African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Freedmen -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century
- Freedmen -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- 1775-1865
- Charleston (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
- Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
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- F279.C49 N458 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.