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Forging freedom Black women and the pursuit of liberty in antebellum Charleston /

"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...

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Main Author: Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti.
Format: Electronic
Language: English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 267 pages) : illustrations.
Series: Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century.
African American women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
African American women -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 19th century.
Freed persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History -- 19th century.
Freed persons -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877.
History.
Charleston (S.C.) -- History -- 1775-1865.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.

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