Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80
- ISBN-10
- 0252066235
- ISBN-13
- 9780252066238
- Category
- Plantation life
- Pages
- 332
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Author
- Marli Frances Weiner
Description
Marli Weiner challenges much of the received wisdom on the domestic realm of the nineteenth-century southern plantation--a world in which white mistresses and female slaves labored together to provide food, clothing, and medicines to the larger plantation community. Although divided by race, black and white women were joined by common female experiences and expectations of behavior. Because work and gender affected them as much as race, mistresses and female slaves interacted with one another very differently from the ways they interacted with men. Supported by the women's own words, Weiner offers fresh interpretations of the ideology of domesticity that influenced women's race relations before the Civil War, the gradual manner in which they changed during the war, and the harsher behaviors that resulted during Reconstruction. A volume in the series Women in American History, edited by Anne Firor Scott, Nancy A. Hewitt, and Stephanie Shaw
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