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Stepping lively in place : the not-married, free women of Civil-War-era Natchez, Mississippi

Broussard, Joyce Linda

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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 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.

• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Subject: 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. / Natchez (Miss.) Social conditions 19th century. / Natchez (Miss.) Race relations History 19th century.
• ISBN: 9780820345499, 9780820349725

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HQ800.4.U62 N383 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE