Stepping lively in place : the not-married, free women of Civil-War-era Natchez, Mississippi /

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"Enlivened with profiles and vignettes of some of the remarkable people whose histories inform this study, Stepping Lively in Place shows how single, free women navigated life in a busy slave-encrusted river-port town before, during, and after the Civil War. It examines how single women in one...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Broussard, Joyce Linda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2016]
Temas:
1800-1899
Single women > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
Divorced women > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
Widows > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
Women, White > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
African American women > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
Women > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
Sex role > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
Femmes seules > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes divorcées > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Veuves > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Blanches > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noires américaines > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noirs américains affranchis > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Femmes > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
African American women
Divorced women
Free African Americans
Race relations
Sex role
Single women
Social conditions
Widows
Women
Women, White
Natchez (Miss.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Natchez (Miss.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Mississippi > Natchez
History
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Sumario:"Enlivened with profiles and vignettes of some of the remarkable people whose histories inform this study, Stepping Lively in Place shows how single, free women navigated life in a busy slave-encrusted river-port town before, during, and after the Civil War. It examines how single women in one city (including prostitutes, entre-preneurs, and elite plantation ladies) coped with life unencumbered, or unprotected, by husbands. The book pays close attention to the laws affecting Southern gender and sociocultural traditions, focusing especially on how the town's single women maneuvered adroitly but guardedly within the legal arena in which they lived. Joyce Linda Broussard looks at all types of single women--black and white, law-abiding and criminal--including spinsters, widows, divorcees, and abandoned women. She demonstrates the nuanced degrees to which these women understood that the legal, cultural, and social traditions of their place and time could alternately constrain or empower them, often achieving thereby a considerable amount of independence as women"--Provided by publisher
Notas:"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--Title page verso
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 338 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780820348988
0820348988
0820345490
9780820345499
9780820349725
0820349720

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