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Braided relations, entwined lives : the women of Charleston's urban slave society /

This study of women in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, looks at the roles of women in an urban slave society. Kennedy takes up issues of gender, race, condition (slave or free), and class and examines the ways each contributed to conveying and replicating power. Her study examines the lives o...

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Основен автор: Kennedy, Cynthia M.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ℗♭2005.
Серия: Blacks in the diaspora.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Braided relations, entwined lives.
Съдържание:
  • I: The place, the war, the first reconstruction
  • The place and the people
  • Disorder and chaos of war
  • Rebuilding and resisting
  • II: Defining women, defining their braided relations
  • Marriage and cohabitation within the aristocratic paradigm: wealthy white women and the free brown elite
  • Marriage and cohabitation outside the aristocratic paradigm: slaves and free laboring women
  • Mixing and admixtures
  • Work and workers
  • Leisure and recreation
  • Women and the law
  • Illness and death.