Braided relations, entwined lives : the women of Charleston's urban slave society /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, IN :
Indiana University Press,
©2005.
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Colección: | Blacks in the diaspora.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 311 pages). |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-301) and index. |
ISBN: | 0253111463 9780253111463 |