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 ...
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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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Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press Enduring Editions
Published:
01/1987
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
17879473916
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Like New. Size: 6x0x9; Still in publisher's original shrink-wrap. Image on cover different than pictured-this has a green background with black and white lettering and illustration of woman and farm animal on front cover. Ships same or next business day from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.