Within the plantation household: black and white women of the Old South

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 argu...

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Main Author: Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth 1941-2007 (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill London The University of North Carolina Press [1988]
In:Year: 1988
Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
UB: KB 18 A 5505
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Summary: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 ...
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 463-529
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Physical Description:xvii, 544 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 25 cm
ISBN:9780807842324
9780807818084
0807818089
080784232X