Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers

Author:Amrita Chakrabarti Myers
Format: pdf
Tags: Arguing that freedom was not a static legal status, but instead a contingent and fragile lived experience, Myers delves deeply into legal, family, church, and government records to weave a rich social history of antebellum Charleston's free black women. Looking both at those who were officially manumitted and at those who lived as free but lacked proper documentation, Myers considers how black women defined, attained, and defended their freedom. This multi-dimensional portrait explores the differences between official and true freedom and examines the efforts by black women to achieve financial and social independence for themselves, to acquire property (both land and slaves), to gain emancipation and autonomy for family members, to live where and with whom they wished, to choose who or whether to marry, and to gain an education and social mobility for themselves and their children., Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press, Published:2011, Related ISBN:9780807835050, Language:English, OCLC:767952992


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