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"Charity Signs for Herself": Gender and the Withdrawal of Black Women from Field Labor, Alabama 1865-1876

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Availability:In StockContributor:Carol Lemley MontgomeryPublish date:2022-10-15Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Carypress International BooksISBN-13:9781631030888ISBN-10:1631030884UPC:9781631030888Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Slavery, Black Studies (Global)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.1707Product ID:SCD50YHZAY

The withdrawal of black women from field labor in the postwar South is the historical question being addressed with a gender analysis as the theoretical framework. Primary sources used have been drawn from Somerset plantation, North Carolina and Faunsdale plantation, Alabama. This book adds to the literature of women's history, gender studies, black history, and the Reconstruction era of Alabama. It adds to the growing body of knowledge of the way gender relations interact with class and race to influence variations of gender roles for both women and men within different social classes and races. The development of the squad system as an integral phase in the general movement toward single-family-based sharecropping is also explored. By the 1880s, family-based sharecropping was the dominate organization of agricultural labor in the cotton South. Informed by a gender analysis, this dissertation focuses on the immediate postwar decade, 1865 to 1877, on one plantation-based community in Marengo County, Alabama. Faunsdale plantation, the white household and black freedwomen and men, form the community under study. Charity Signs for Herself reveals the persistence of male dominance among black freedmen as evidenced in their gender relations and ranking of squad members.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Carypress International BooksISBN-13:9781631030888ISBN-10:1631030884UPC:9781631030888Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:African American & Black, Slavery, Black Studies (Global)Size:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.1707Product ID:SCD50YHZAY
Publisher: Carypress International Books

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