Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston.

Authors

Douglas R. Egerton

ISBN

978-0-8078-3505-0

Price

$39.95

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Abstract

Forging New Ground in Antebellum Charleston

Sophie Mauncaut, once enslaved in French Saint Domingue, arrived in South Carolina with her owner, Josephine Catreuille. Toward the end of her life, Catreulle freed Mauncaut. That was not uncommon, since slaveholding women tended to liberate fa....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.14.3.08

Recommended Citation

Egerton, Douglas R. (2012) "Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston.," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 14 : Iss. 3 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.14.3.08
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol14/iss3/7