Tenancy and African American Marriage in the Postbellum South.
The pervasiveness of tenancy in the postbellum South had countervailing effects on marriage between African Americans. Tenancy placed severe constraints on African American women's ability to find independent agricultural work. Freedwomen confronted not only planters' reluctance to contract directly...
| Publicado en: | Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 52; no. 5; pp. 1409 - 1431 |
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