Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South

Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
ISBN-10
0807864226
ISBN-13
9780807864227
Category
Social Science
Pages
563
Language
English
Published
2000-11-09
Publisher
UNC Press Books
Author
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Description

Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand antebellum southern women by applying models derived from New England sources.

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