Forging freedom : Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston / / Amrita Chakrabarti Myers.
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| Superior document: | Gender and American culture |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gender & American culture.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 267 p. :; maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.