Myers, Amrita Chakrabarti.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.
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Part of the series Gender and American culture;Gender & American culture.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction : imagining freedom in the slave South — City of contrasts : Charleston before the Civil War — A way out of no way : Black women and manumission — To survive and thrive : race, sex, and waged labor in the city — The currency of citizenship : property ownership and Black female freedom — A tale of two women : the lives of Cecille Cogdell and Sarah Sanders — A fragile freedom : the story of Margaret Bettingall and her daughters — Epilogue : the continuing search for freedom.

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.
• Freedmen — South Carolina — Charleston — History — 19th century.
• Freedmen — South Carolina — Charleston — Social conditions — 19th century.
• Slaves — Emancipation — United States — History — 19th century.
• Antislavery movements — United States — History — 19th century.
• African Americans — History — 1863-1877.
• 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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