Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston
- ISBN-10
- 0807835056
- ISBN-13
- 9780807835050
- Series
- Forging Freedom
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 267
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
Description
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, de
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