Freedom's women: black women and families in Civil War era Mississippi

"African American women both accepted and defied conventional definitions of private and public spheres. As freed women and men tried to minimize interference by their former owners, practically everything considered private became a public issue: marriage, mobility, parenthood, housing, and co...

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Main Author: Frankel, Noralee (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington [u.a.] Indiana Univ. Press 1999
Series:Blacks in the diaspora
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Summary:"African American women both accepted and defied conventional definitions of private and public spheres. As freed women and men tried to minimize interference by their former owners, practically everything considered private became a public issue: marriage, mobility, parenthood, housing, and control over African American women's sexuality. Experiences such as pregnancy, nursing, the preparation of meals, and washing clothes, certainly viewed as private by freed women, became areas of heated debate between employers and employees."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:XVI, 270 S.
ISBN:0253334950
0253212782

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