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Author Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti.
Title Forging freedom [electronic resource] : black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston
Publication Info Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2011.



Descript 1 online resource (282 p.)
Note Description based upon print version of record.
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, an
325 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780807869093
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Descript 1 online resource (282 p.)
Note Description based upon print version of record.
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, an
325 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780807869093
Author Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti.
Subject African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century.
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- 1775-1865.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Freedmen -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century.
Freedmen -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions -- 19th century.

Subject African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century.
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- 1775-1865.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Freedmen -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century.
Freedmen -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Descript 1 online resource (282 p.)
Note Description based upon print version of record.
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, an
325 annual accesses. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780807869093

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