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Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society
Contributor(s): Kennedy, Cynthia M. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0253346150     ISBN-13: 9780253346155
Publisher: Indiana University Press
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Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: November 2005
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"[A] stunning, deeply researched, and gracefully written social history." -- Leslie Schwalm, University of Iowa

This 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 personal destiny and where at the same time people of color and white people mingled daily. 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.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
- Social Science | Slavery
Dewey: 305.409
LCCN: 2005011535
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Series: Blacks in the Diaspora (Hardcover)
Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.5" W x 9.54" L (1.52 lbs) 328 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - South Atlantic
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Geographic Orientation - South Carolina
- Locality - Charleston, South Carolina
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Topical - Black History
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
 
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[A] stunning, deeply researched, and gracefully written social history. --Leslie Schwalm, University of Iowa

This 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 personal destiny and where at the same time people of color and white people mingled daily. 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.
 
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