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