Freedom's Women

Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi

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Noralee Frankel

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"Freedom's Women" examines the African American women's experiences during the Civil War and the first five years of Reconstruction in Mississippi. Exploring issues of family and work, the author shows how African American women's attempts to achieve more control over their lives shaped their attitudes toward work, marriage, family and community. 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 forner 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.

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Dr. Noralee Frankel is assistant director on women, minorities, and teaching at the American Historical Association. She is author of Break Those Chains at Last: African Americans 1860-1880 and coeditor of Gender, Class, Race and Reform in the Progressive Era.

Release date NZ

October 22nd, 1999

Author

Noralee Frankel

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

288

Dimensions

152x229x30

ISBN-13

9780253334954

Product ID

3992144

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