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Forging freedom

by Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti.
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Gender and American culture Published by : University of North Carolina Press, (Chapel Hill :) Physical details: xi, 267 p. : maps.
Subject(s): African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century. | African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions -- 19th century. | Freedmen -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century. | Freedmen -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions -- 19th century. | Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- 1775-1865. | Charleston (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century. | Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century. | Electronic books.
Year: 2011
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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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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