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
Autor principal: Broussard, Joyce Linda (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women, White.
Women.
Widows.
Social conditions.
Single women.
Sex role.
Race relations.
Free African Americans.
Divorced women.
African American women.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Rôle selon le sexe > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Femmes > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noirs americains affranchis > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Noires americaines > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Blanches > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Veuves > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Femmes divorcees > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Femmes seules > Mississippi > Natchez > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Sex role > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
Women > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
Free African Americans > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
African American women > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
Women, White > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
Widows > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
Divorced women > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
Single women > Mississippi > Natchez > History > 19th century.
Mississippi > Natchez.
Natchez (Miss.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Natchez (Miss.) > Social conditions > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
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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 (360 pages).
ISBN:9780820348988

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