| Description |
251 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Southern women
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Southern women.
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| Contents |
"The extent of the law": free women of color in antebellum Memphis, Tennessee / Beverly Greene Bond -- "Our convent": the Oblate Sisters of Providence and Baltimore's antebellum Black community / Diane Batts Morrow -- "Her just dues": Civil War pensions of African American women in Virginia / Michelle A. Krowl -- Virginia women as public citizens: Emancipation Day celebrations and lost cause commemorations, 1863-1890 / Antoinette G. van Zelm -- Married women's property rights and the challenge to the patriarchal order: Colorado County, Texas / Angela Boswell -- Indispensable spinsters: maiden aunts in the elite families of Savannah and Charleston / Christine Jacobson Carter -- "The strongest ties that bind poor mortals together": slaveholding widows and family in the old southeast / Kirsten E. Wood -- The elite African American women of Orangeburg, South Carolina: class, work, and disunity / Kibibi Voloria Mack-Shelton -- Lost cause mythology in new South reform: gender, class, race, and the politics of patriotic citizenship in Georgia, 1890-1925 / Rebecca Montgomery -- Cartridge makers and Myrmidon Viragos: White working-class women in Confederate Richmond / E. Susan Barber -- "Their desire to visit the Southerners": Mary Greenhow Lee's visiting "Connexion" / Sheila Rae Phipps. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Women -- Southern States -- History.
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Women. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
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African American women -- Southern States -- History.
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African American women. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Coryell, Janet L., 1955-
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| ISBN |
0826212956 alkaline paper |
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