What Effect Did Emancipation Have on the Structure of the Black

question 139

Multiple Choice

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.

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