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Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (Gender and American Culture)
Within the Plantation Household Black and White Women of the Old South - Gender and American Culture
Author: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
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, ...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780807842324
ISBN-10: 080784232X
Publication Date: 12/9/1988
Pages: 544
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Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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An interesting book regarding the dynamics of the pre-Civil War plantation household.


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