Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 311 p)
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2006 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0253346150
Content:
"[A] stunning, deeply researched, and gracefully written social history." -- Leslie Schwalm, University of IowaThis study of women in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, looks at the roles of women in an urban slave society. Cynthia M. Kennedy takes up issues of gender, race, condition (slave or free), and class and examines the ways each contributed to conveying and replicating power. She analyses what it meant to be a woman in a world where historically specific social classifications determined pers
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-301) and index
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Place and the People; 2. Disorder and Chaos of War; 3. Rebuilding and Resisting; 4. Marriage and Cohabitation within the Aristocratic Paradigm:Wealthy White Women and the Free Brown Elite; 5. Marriage and Cohabitation outside the Aristocratic Paradigm:Slaves and Free Laboring Women; 6. Mixing and Admixtures; 7. Work and Workers; 8. Leisure and Recreation; 9. Women and the Law; 10. Illness and Death; Conclusion; Appendix 1. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land-WarrantApplications
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Appendix 2. South Carolina Court System and the Case UniverseAbbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780253346155
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Braided Relations, Entwined Lives : The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society
Language:
English
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