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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Social conditions
Slaves > Emancipation.
Race relations.
Freed persons > Social conditions.
Freed persons.
Antislavery movements.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
African Americans.
African American women > Social conditions.
African American women.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Noirs americains > Histoire > 1863-1877.
Mouvements antiesclavagistes > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Affranchis > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
Affranchis > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noires americaines > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noires americaines > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Conditions sociales > 19e siecle.
Noires americaines > Caroline du Sud > Charleston > Histoire > 19e siecle.
African Americans > History > 1863-1877.
Antislavery movements > United States > History > 19th century.
Slaves > Emancipation > United States > History > 19th century.
Freed persons > South Carolina > Charleston > Social conditions > 19th century.
Freed persons > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > South Carolina > Charleston > 19th century.
African American women > United States > History > 19th century.
African American women > South Carolina > Charleston > Social conditions > 19th century.
African American women > South Carolina > Charleston > History > 19th century.
United States.
South Carolina > Charleston.
Charleston (Car. du S.) > Histoire > 1775-1865.
Charleston (S.C.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) > History > 1775-1865.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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