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

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This study of women in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, looks at the roles of women in an urban slave society. Kennedy takes up issues of gender, race, condition (slave or free), and class and examines the ways each contributed to conveying and replicating power. Her study examines the lives o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kennedy, Cynthia M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2005.
Colección:Blacks in the diaspora.
Temas:
Women > South Carolina > Charleston > History.
Women > South Carolina > Charleston > Social conditions.
African American women > South Carolina > Charleston > Social conditions.
Femmes > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Histoire.
Femmes > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Conditions sociales.
Noires américaines > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
African American women > Social conditions
Race relations
Women
Women > Social conditions
Ethnische Beziehungen
Sklavin
Soziale Situation
Frau
Charleston (S.C.) > Race relations > History.
South Carolina > Charleston
Charleston, SC
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:This study of women in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, looks at the roles of women in an urban slave society. Kennedy takes up issues of gender, race, condition (slave or free), and class and examines the ways each contributed to conveying and replicating power. Her study examines the lives of the women of Charleston and the variety of their attempts to negotiate the web of social relations that ensnared them.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 311 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-301) and index.
ISBN:0253111463
9780253111463

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