Braided Relations, Entwined Lives - The Women of Charleston''s Urban Slave Society

Informationen zum Autor Cynthia M. Kennedy Klappentext Kennedy's study examines the lives of the women of Charleston and the variety of their attempts to negotiate the web of social relations that ensnared them. Zusammenfassung Discussing the roles of women in an urban slave society, this book takes up issues of gender, race, condition (slave or free), and class and examines the ways each contributed to conveying and replicating power. It analyses what it meant to be a woman in a world where historically specific social classifications determined personal destiny. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. The Place, the War, the First Reconstruction 1. The Place and the People 2. Disorder and Chaos of War 3. Rebuilding and Resisting Part II. Defining Women, Defining Their Braided Relations 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-Warrant Applications Appendix 2. South Carolina Court System and the Case Universe Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia M Kennedy, Cynthia M. Kennedy, Kennedy Cynthia M
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2005
• EAN: 9780253346155
• ISBN: 978-0-253-34615-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Blacks in the Diaspora; Blacks in the Diaspora (Hardco; Blacks in the Diaspora; Blacks in the Diaspora (Hardco
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories