Forging freedom : Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston /

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"For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, defined, and defended their own vision of...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
1775-1899
African American women > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
African American women > South Carolina > Charleston > Social conditions > 19th century.
African American women > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > South Carolina > Charleston > 19th century.
Freed persons > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
Freed persons > South Carolina > Charleston > Social conditions > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > United States > History > 19th century.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
African Americans > History > 1863-1877.
Noires américaines > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noires américaines > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Noires américaines > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Personnes affranchies > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Personnes affranchies > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains > Histoire > 1863-1877.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
African American women
African American women > Social conditions
African Americans
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Antislavery movements
Freed persons
Freed persons > Social conditions
Race relations
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
Social conditions
Charleston (S.C.) > History > 1775-1865.
Charleston (S.C.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Charleston (Car. du S.) > Histoire > 1775-1865.
South Carolina > Charleston
United States
History
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Forging Freedom : Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston /
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Forging freedom : Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston /
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