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Within the plantation household : Black and White women of the Old South / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.

By: Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth, 1941-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Gender & American culture. Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1988Description: xvii, 544 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0807818089 (alk. paper); 080784232X (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Afro-American women -- Southern States -- History | White women -- Southern States -- History | Plantation life -- Southern States -- History | Slavery -- Southern States -- History | Southern States -- Race relations -- History | African American women -- History | Women -- Southern States -- History | Plantation life -- History | Slavery -- Southern States -- History | Race relations -- History | Southern States -- HistoryDDC classification: 305.4/0975
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Southern women, southern households -- The view from the big house -- Between big house and slave community -- Gender conventions -- The imaginative worlds of slaveholding women : Louisa Susanna McCord and her countrywomen -- Women who opposed slavery -- And women who did not.
Summary: Using women's diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories the author writes a history of the southern women both slaveholding and slave women during the antebellum South before the Civil War.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 463-529) and index.

Southern women, southern households -- The view from the big house -- Between big house and slave community -- Gender conventions -- The imaginative worlds of slaveholding women : Louisa Susanna McCord and her countrywomen -- Women who opposed slavery -- And women who did not.

Using women's diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories the author writes a history of the southern women both slaveholding and slave women during the antebellum South before the Civil War.

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