ISBN:
0807818089
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9780807842324
,
9780807818084
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 544 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
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25 cm
Series Statement:
Gender & American culture
DDC:
305.40975
Keywords:
African American women History
;
Women, White History
;
Plantation life History
;
Slavery History
;
Southern States Race relations
;
History
;
USA
;
Plantage
;
Plantagenwirtschaft
;
Weibliche Weiße
;
Schwarze Frau
;
Sklaverei
;
Geschichte 1820-1865
Abstract:
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 ...
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 463-529
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