Forging freedom
Subtitle: Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston
By: Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
Series: Gender and American culture
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807835050
Subjects: South Carolina; Freedmen; African American women; Social conditions; Race relations; 19th century; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : imagining freedom in the slave South; title: City of contrasts : Charleston before the Civil War; title: A way out of no way : Black women and manumission; title: To survive and thrive : race, sex, and waged labor in the city; title: The currency of citizenship : property ownership and Black female freedom; title: A tale of two women : the lives of Cecille Cogdell and Sarah Sanders; title: A fragile freedom : the story of Margaret Bettingall and her daughters; title: Epilogue : the continuing search for freedom.