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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011

1 online resource (xi, 267 p.) : maps

ISBN 9780807869093 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780807835050 (cloth alk. paper)

Gender and American culture

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)767952992