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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| Tipo de documento: | Print Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill London
The University of North Carolina Press
[1988]
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| En: | Año: 1988 |
| Disponibilidad en Tübingen: | Disponible en Tübingen. UB: KB 18 A 5505 |
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| Sumario: | 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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| Notas: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 463-529 Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Descripción Física: | xvii, 544 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780807842324 9780807818084 0807818089 080784232X |