Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South

Name: Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
ISBN: 9780807842324

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

31/12/1988
The University Of North Carolina Press

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South par Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Résumé

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.