| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Braided Relations, Entwined Lives: The Women of Charleston's Urban Slave Society. By Cynthia M. Kennedy. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. xiv, 311 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-253-34615-0.)

Cynthia M. Kennedy's carefully researched Braided Relations, Entwined Lives examines the lives and interrelationships of four groups of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Charlestonians: enslaved women, free laboring white women, free black and brown women, and elite slaveholding women. In exacting detail, Kennedy digs up how each group of women worked, engaged with men in intimate relations (such as marriage and unmarried liaisons), and played. Above all, Braided Relations, Entwined Lives analyzes the agency these women had in constructing and reconstructing real and imagined roles for themselves in Charleston, South Carolina. As much as Kennedy is interested in Charleston per se, she is also interested in using the variety of groups of women in early national Charleston as a prism through which to view the "overlaid and interrelated" quality of the social categories of "gender, race, color, condition and class" (p. 1).

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