Title: Freedom's women
Subtitle: Black women and families in Civil War era Mississippi
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: African American families, African American women, African Americans, Freedmen, History, Mississippi Civil War, 1861-1865, Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), Social aspects, Social aspects of Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877), United States Civil War, 1861-1865, Mississippi, history, United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, african americans, Freedmen, united states, African americans, mississippi, Freed persons, Reconstruction, Afro-American women, Afro-American families, Afro-Americans
Places: Mississippi, United States
Time periods: 19th century, Civil War, 1861-1865
LC classification: E185.93.M6 F73 1999