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

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(A) stunning, deeply researched, and gracefully written socialhistory." -- Leslie Schwalm, University of IowaThis study ofwomen in antebellum Charleston, South Carolina, looks at the roles of women in anurban 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 andreplicating power. She analyses what it meant to be a woman in a world wherehistorically specific social classifications determined personal destiny and whereat the same time people of color and white people mingled daily. Kennedy's studyexamines the lives of the women of Charleston and the variety of their attempts tonegotiate the web of social relations that ensnared them.