Freedom's women
Subtitle: Black women and families in Civil War era Mississippi
By: by Noralee Frankel.
Series: Blacks in the diaspora
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: African American women -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century.; African American families -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century.; Freedmen -- Mississippi -- History -- 19th century.; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Social aspects -- Mississippi.; Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.; Mississippi -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-264) and index.