03609nam 2200733 a 450 991082245570332120240514072101.0979-88-908828-2-01-4696-0259-80-8078-6909-0(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 Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston /Amrita Chakrabarti Myers1st ed.Chapel 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 conditions305.48/8960730757915305.488960730757915Myers Amrita Chakrabarti1601886MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822455703321Forging freedom3925672UNINA