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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (Gender and American Culture)

By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Book information

Year
1988
ISBN
0807818089, 9780807818084, 9780807864227
LCC
HQ1438.A13 F69 1988
Open Library ID
OL2060714M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12213210 bytes)
Pages
563\565
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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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