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Author Kennedy, Cynthia M.

Title Braided relations, entwined lives : the women of Charleston's urban slave society / Cynthia M. Kennedy.

Publication Info. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2005]
©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 311 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Blacks in the diaspora
Blacks in the diaspora.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-301) and index.
Contents I: The place, the war, the first reconstruction -- The place and the people -- Disorder and chaos of war -- Rebuilding and resisting -- II: Defining women, defining their braided relations -- Marriage and cohabitation within the aristocratic paradigm: wealthy white women and the free brown elite -- Marriage and cohabitation outside the aristocratic paradigm: slaves and free laboring women -- Mixing and admixtures -- Work and workers -- Leisure and recreation -- Women and the law -- Illness and death.
Summary This study of women in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, looks at the roles of women in an urban slave society. Kennedy takes up issues of gender, race, condition (slave or free), and class and examines the ways each contributed to conveying and replicating power. Her study examines the lives of the women of Charleston and the variety of their attempts to negotiate the web of social relations that ensnared them.
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Subject Women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History.
Women.
South Carolina -- Charleston.
History.
Women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions.
African American women.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Kennedy, Cynthia M. Braided relations, entwined lives. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2005 0253346150 (DLC) 2005011535 (OCoLC)59879609
ISBN 0253111463 (electronic book)
9780253111463 (electronic book)
0253346150 (cloth alkaline paper)
9780253346155 (cloth alkaline paper)