03576nam 2200709 a 450 991078130390332120220416022128.0979-88-908828-2-01-4696-0259-80-8078-6909-0(CKB)2550000000063993(EBL)819533(OCoLC)767952992(SSID)ssj0000565220(PQKBManifestationID)11973670(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565220(PQKBWorkID)10532468(PQKB)11381684(StDuBDS)EDZ0000244385(MdBmJHUP)muse23478(Au-PeEL)EBL819533(CaPaEBR)ebr10513595(CaONFJC)MIL929742(MiAaPQ)EBC819533(EXLCZ)99255000000006399320110425d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrForging freedom[electronic resource] Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston /Amrita Chakrabarti MyersChapel Hill University of North Carolina Pressc20111 online resource (282 p.)Gender and American cultureDescription based upon print version of record.1-4696-1904-0 0-8078-3505-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.For black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, defined, and defended their own vision of freedom. Drawing on legislative and judicial materials, probate data, tax lists, church records, family papers, and more, Myers creates detailed portraits of individual women while exploring how black female Charlestonians sought to create a fuller freedom by improving their financial, social, anGender & American culture.African American womenSouth CarolinaCharlestonHistory19th centuryAfrican American womenSouth CarolinaCharlestonSocial conditions19th centuryFreed personsSouth CarolinaCharlestonHistory19th centuryFreed personsSouth CarolinaCharlestonSocial conditions19th centuryCharleston (S.C.)History1775-1865Charleston (S.C.)Social conditions19th centuryCharleston (S.C.)Race relationsHistory19th centuryAfrican American womenHistoryAfrican American womenSocial conditionsFreed personsHistoryFreed personsSocial conditions305.48/8960730757915Myers Amrita Chakrabarti1538645MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781303903321Forging freedom3788801UNINA