LEADER 03576nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910781303903321 005 20220416022128.0 010 $a979-88-908828-2-0 010 $a1-4696-0259-8 010 $a0-8078-6909-0 035 $a(CKB)2550000000063993 035 $a(EBL)819533 035 $a(OCoLC)767952992 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000565220 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11973670 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565220 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10532468 035 $a(PQKB)11381684 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000244385 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23478 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL819533 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10513595 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL929742 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC819533 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000063993 100 $a20110425d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aForging freedom$b[electronic resource] $eBlack women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston /$fAmrita Chakrabarti Myers 210 $aChapel Hill $cUniversity of North Carolina Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (282 p.) 225 1 $aGender and American culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4696-1904-0 311 $a0-8078-3505-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aFor black women in antebellum Charleston, freedom was not a static legal category but a fragile and contingent experience. In this deeply researched social history, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers analyzes the ways in which black women in Charleston acquired, defined, and defended their own vision of freedom. Drawing on legislative and judicial materials, probate data, tax lists, church records, family papers, and more, Myers creates detailed portraits of individual women while exploring how black female Charlestonians sought to create a fuller freedom by improving their financial, social, an 410 0$aGender & American culture. 606 $aAfrican American women$zSouth Carolina$zCharleston$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAfrican American women$zSouth Carolina$zCharleston$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aFreed persons$zSouth Carolina$zCharleston$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aFreed persons$zSouth Carolina$zCharleston$xSocial conditions$y19th century 607 $aCharleston (S.C.)$xHistory$y1775-1865 607 $aCharleston (S.C.)$xSocial conditions$y19th century 607 $aCharleston (S.C.)$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aAfrican American women$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican American women$xSocial conditions 615 0$aFreed persons$xHistory 615 0$aFreed persons$xSocial conditions 676 $a305.48/8960730757915 700 $aMyers$b Amrita Chakrabarti$01538645 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781303903321 996 $aForging freedom$93788801 997 $aUNINA