| 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 OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2005 Annotation: "[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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Social Science | Slavery |
| Dewey: 305.409 |
| LCCN: 2005011535 |
| Series: Blacks in the Diaspora (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.5" W x 9.54" (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 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: [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. |