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
Charleston <SC>
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I: The place, the war, the first reconstruction
  • The place and the people
  • Disorder and chaos of war
  • Rebuilding and resisting
  • II: Defining women, defining their braided relations
  • Marriage and cohabitation within the aristocratic paradigm: wealthy white women and the free brown elite
  • Marriage and cohabitation outside the aristocratic paradigm: slaves and free laboring women
  • Mixing and admixtures
  • Work and workers
  • Leisure and recreation
  • Women and the law
  • Illness and death.

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