Within the Plantation Household Black and White Women of the Old South |
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| Author:
| Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth |
| Series title: | Gender and American Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8078-4232-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1988 |
| Publisher: | University of North Carolina Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $36.95 |
Book Description:
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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 on 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.
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 on 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.