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Author Broussard, Joyce Linda, author

Title Stepping lively in place : the not-married, free women of Civil-War-era Natchez, Mississippi / Joyce Linda Broussard
Published Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 338 pages)
Contents A note on terminology -- Antebellum Natchez : the place in which they stepped -- Stepping lively amid their shadows : the single white women of antebellum Natchez -- Stepping out on their own : the divorcing women of antebellum Natchez -- Stepping beyond their husbands' graves : the widows of antebellum Natchez -- Stepping lively in place : the Free-Black, not-married women of antebellum Natchez -- Stepping lively at the edge : the disorderly, not-married women of antebellum Natchez -- Stepping through the tumult : not-married women in Confederate and Yankee-occupied Natchez -- Stepping into the breach : the women of postbellum Natchez -- single and married, black and white -- Stepping through the ruins : personal sketches -- Epilogue
Summary "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
Notes "A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 17, 2017)
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
HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
African American women
Divorced women
Free African Americans
Race relations
Sex role
Single women
Social conditions
Widows
Women
Women, White
SUBJECT Natchez (Miss.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Natchez (Miss.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Subject Mississippi -- Natchez
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016016527
ISBN 9780820348988
0820348988
0820345490
9780820345499
9780820349725
0820349720