Gendered freedoms : race, rights, and the politics of household in the Delta, 1861-1875 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bercaw, Nancy
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2003]
Series:	Southern dissent.
Subjects:	Delta (Miss. : Region) > Race relations. Delta (Miss. : Region) > Social conditions > 19th century. Plantation life > Mississippi > Delta (Region) Households > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > History > 19th century. Whites > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > Social conditions > 19th century. African Americans > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > Social conditions > 19th century. Sex role > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > History > 19th century. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Social aspects. United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Influence. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Mississippi > Delta (Region)

Table of Contents:

The foundation of our rights? emancipation, marriage, and African-American households
Locating authority: planter women and the shattering of the plantation household
The perversion of defeat: the crisis of White manhood
Husbands, wives, and sweethearts: gender relations within African-American households
Rights and obligations: marriage, alternative households, and the reconstruction of plantation labor
Going to court and claiming citizenship: property, patriarchy, and alternative households
Legislating rights: citizens, "legal voters," and the boundaries of the household.