Forging freedom Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston /
Основен автор: | Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti. |
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Автор-организации: | ebrary, Inc. |
Формат: | Електронен |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2011.
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Серия: |
Gender & American culture.
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Онлайн достъп: |
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Съдържание:
- 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.