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Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia: Claiming Freedom
Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia
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table of contents
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Claiming Freedom in the Lowcountry
1: The Slave’s Dream
The Hurt of this Hurt World
The Illusion of Isolation
Memory and (DIS)Remembering
2: War and Freedom
Marginal Spaces of Freedom
Gender, War, and Freedom
Less than Forty Acres
The Ogeechee Troubles
3: “Full and Fair Compensation”
Free Labor Ideology and Liminal Spaces of Freedom
Women of Freedom
Claiming Freedom for Themselves
4: The State of Freedom is the State of Self-Reliance
Kinship and Land in the Lowcountry
Landownership and Women’s Community Networks
The Town of Burroughs
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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