Freedom's Women: Black Women and Families in Civil War Era MississippiFrankel's scholarship in this carefully researched and clearly written study is impressive. . . . The study is thoroughly documented with 70 pages of footnotes and a 14 page bibliography, refleccting Frankel's grasp of the secondary literature as well as extensive work in primary documents. Choice Freedom's Women examines African American women's experiences during the Civil War and early Reconstruction years in Mississippi. Exploring issues of family