Within the Plantation Household

ISBN: 9780807842324

出版社: Univ of North Carolina Pr

出版年: 1988-12

页数: 563

定价: $ 28.19

装帧: Pap

内容简介

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.