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100 1 Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities
/names/n2011027592
245 10 Forging freedom :|bBlack women and the pursuit of liberty
in antebellum Charleston /|cAmrita Chakrabarti Myers.
264 1 Chapel Hill :|bUniversity of North Carolina Press,|c[2011]
264 4 |c©2011
300 1 online resource (xi, 267 pages) :|billustrations.
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490 1 Gender and American culture
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 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.
520 "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, and legal standing.
Examining both those who were officially manumitted and
those who lived as free persons but lacked official
documentation, Myers reveals that free black women filed
lawsuits and petitions, acquired property (including
slaves), entered into contracts, paid taxes, earned wages,
attended schools, and formed familial alliances with
wealthy and powerful men, black and white--all in an
effort to solidify and expand their freedom. Never fully
free, black women had to depend on their skills of
negotiation in a society dedicated to upholding both
slavery and patriarchy. Forging Freedom examines the many
ways in which Charleston's black women crafted a freedom
of their own design instead of accepting the limited
existence imagined for them by white Southerners"--
Provided by publisher.
588 0 Print version record.
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aMyers, Amrita Chakrabarti.|tForging
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