Gendered freedoms: race, rights, and the politics of household in the Delta, 1861-1875

The Foundation of Our Rights? Emancipation, Marriage, and African-American Households

Locating Authority: Planter Women and the Shattering

of the Plantation Household

The Perversion of Defeat: The Crisis of White Manhood

Husbands, Wives, and Sweethearts: Gender Relations within African-American Households

Rights and Obligations: Marriage, Alternative Households, and the Reconstruction of Plantation Labor

Going to Court and Claiming Citizenship: Property, Patriarchy, and Alternative Households

Legislating Rights: Citizens, "Legal Voters," and the Boundaries of the Household.