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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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A note on terminology
  • Antebellum Natchez : the place in which they stepped
  • Stepping lively amid their shadows : the single white women of antebellum Natchez
  • Stepping out on their own : the divorcing women of antebellum Natchez
  • Stepping beyond their husbands' graves : the widows of antebellum Natchez
  • Stepping lively in place : the Free-Black, not-married women of antebellum Natchez
  • Stepping lively at the edge : the disorderly, not-married women of antebellum Natchez
  • Stepping through the tumult : not-married women in Confederate and Yankee-occupied Natchez
  • Stepping into the breach : the women of postbellum Natchez
  • single and married, black and white
  • Stepping through the ruins : personal sketches
  • Epilogue.

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