Forging Freedom
Author | : Amrita Chakrabarti Myers |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2011 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780807835050 |
ISBN-13 | : 0807835056 |
Rating | : 4/5 (056 Downloads) |
Download or read book Forging Freedom written by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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