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Book Review


Gendered Freedoms: Race, Rights, and the Politics of Household in the Delta, 1861–1875. By Nancy Bercaw. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003. xviii, 279 pp. $55.00, ISBN 0-8130-2591-5.)
Scholarly, and increasingly popular, understandings of the Civil War era have changed considerably over the past several decades. Battlefields now defy the boundaries of national park sites, and Southern belles, the riotous poor, and self-emancipating slaves stand shoulder-to-shoulder with soldiers in a cataclysmic contest over Union, citizenship, and freedom. Remaking the nation, most now agree, involved rethinking relationships between men and women, rich and poor, capital and labor, and black and white as well as reattaching North and South. . . .
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