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

Type

Book

Authors

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

ISBN 10

080784232X

ISBN 13

9780807842324

Tags

Women, State & Local, Women in History, African-American Studies, Women's Studies, United States, Gender Studies

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. - from Amzon

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