Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Household in the Delta, 1861-1875

By Nancy D. Bercaw and Nancy Bercaw

Book Overview

In May 1862, hundreds of African-Americans freed themselves in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and in the process destroyed the South's fundamental structure of power - the plantation household. Yet at... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813027888
• ISBN13: 9780813027883
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"