18thVirginia
Major
- Joined
- Sep 8, 2012
We've examined various groups of women in the states of the old Southwest and we come to Mississippi. A lot of Mississippi history of women focuses on Vicksburg, but a book by Noralee Frankel, Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era Mississippi, examines the changes that the Civil War made in the lives of black women in Mississippi. She spends a lot of time around the issues of marriage, which she presents somewhat differently than many typical overviews of black women's lives.
Mollie Williams, former slave in Mississippi
Mollie Williams, former slave in Mississippi