Stepping Lively in Place : The Not-married, Free Women of Civil-War-era Natchez, Mississippi by Joyce Linda Broussard
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Overview: 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-based river-port town before, during, and after the Civil War. It examines how single women in one city (including prostitutes, entrepreneurs, 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.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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