Within the Plantation Household

Within the Plantation Household
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 565
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ISBN-10 : 9780807864227
ISBN-13 : 0807864226
Rating : 4/5 (226 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Within the Plantation Household by : Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Download or read book Within the Plantation Household written by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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