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Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
Out of the House of Bondage The Transformation of the Plantation Household
Author: Thavolia Glymph
This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless victims of the same patriarchal system responsible for the oppression of the enslaved. Glymp...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521703987
ISBN-10: 0521703980
Publication Date: 6/30/2008
Pages: 296
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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