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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
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Title: Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
Author: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
ISBN: 9780807842324
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1988
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 568
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher 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.
Author: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
ISBN: 9780807842324
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1988
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 568
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher 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.
