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050 4 F279.C49 N458 2011
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100 1 Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti.
245 10 Forging freedom|h[electronic resource] :|bblack women and
the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston
260 Chapel Hill :|bThe University of North Carolina Press,
|c2011.
300 1 online resource (282 p.)
500 Description based upon print version of record.
506 1 325 annual accesses.|5UkHlHU
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, an
650 0 African American women|zSouth Carolina|zCharleston
|xHistory|y19th century.
650 0 African American women|zSouth Carolina|zCharleston|xSocial
conditions|y19th century.
650 0 Freedmen|zSouth Carolina|zCharleston|xHistory|y19th
century.
650 0 Freedmen|zSouth Carolina|zCharleston|xSocial conditions
|y19th century.
651 0 Charleston (S.C.)|xHistory|y1775-1865.
651 0 Charleston (S.C.)|xRace relations|xHistory|y19th century.
651 0 Charleston (S.C.)|xSocial conditions|y19th century.
856 40 |zClick here to view book|uhttp://hull.eblib.com/patron/
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