Forging freedom : Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston /
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Format: | Online |
Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
The University of North Carolina Press,
[2011]
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Series: | Gender & American culture.
UNC Press law publications. Women and the law. Civil rights and social justice. |
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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.