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What effect did emancipation have on the structure of the black family?

a. Black couples managed to maintain equality within the household because black men tended to enjoy being able to stay at home.

b. Black families increasingly adopted the nineteenth-century idea that men and women held different responsibilities.

c. Although gender roles between men and women stayed the same, black men needed to engage in more intensive labor than ever before.

d. Black families became increasingly matrilineal as black women started to enter the workforce and earn wages.

e. Black families enjoyed a good, stable quality of life because most black women tended to embrace the opportunity to enter field labor.

ANS: B TOP: The Meaning of Freedom

DIF: Difficult REF: Full pp. 550551 | Seagull p. 566 MSC: Understanding OBJ: 1. Identify the visions of freedom the former slaves and slaveholders pursued in the postwar South.

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