Braided relations, entwined lives : the women of Charleston's urban slave society / Cynthia M. Kennedy.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kennedy, Cynthia M.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2005.
Series:	Blacks in the diaspora.
Subjects:	Women > South Carolina > Charleston > History. Women > South Carolina > Charleston > Social conditions. African American women > South Carolina > Charleston > Social conditions. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies. African American women > Social conditions Race relations Women Women > Social conditions Ethnische Beziehungen Sklavin Soziale Situation Frau Charleston (S.C.) > Race relations > History. South Carolina > Charleston Charleston, SC History
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Table of Contents:

I: The place, the war, the first reconstruction
The place and the people
Disorder and chaos of war
Rebuilding and resisting
II: Defining women, defining their braided relations
Marriage and cohabitation within the aristocratic paradigm: wealthy white women and the free brown elite
Marriage and cohabitation outside the aristocratic paradigm: slaves and free laboring women
Mixing and admixtures
Work and workers
Leisure and recreation
Women and the law
Illness and death.

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