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Author Glymph, Thavolia, 1951-

Title Out of the house of bondage : the transformation of the plantation household / Thavolia Glymph
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages)
Contents Gender of violence -- "Beyond the limits of decency": women in slavery -- Making "better girls": mistresses, slave women, and the claims of domesticity -- "Nothing but deception in them": the war within -- Out of the house of bondage: a sundering of ties, 1865-1866 -- "Makeshift kind of life": free women and free homes -- "Wild notions of right and wrong": from the plantation household to the wilder world
Summary Glymph challenges popular depictions of mistresses as 'friends' and 'allies' of slaves in the plantation household
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-263) and index
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Subject Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Enslaved women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
African American women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Plantation owners' spouses -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Women, White -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Social distance -- History -- 19th century
Households -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Patriarchy -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Rural.
African American women -- Social conditions
Households
Manners and customs
Patriarchy
Plantation life
Race relations
Social distance
Enslaved women -- Social conditions
Plantagenbesitzer
Ehefrau
Weibliche Weiße
Haushalt
Soziale Situation
Plantage
Sklavin
Schwarze Frau
SUBJECT Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125665
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Subject Southern States
USA -- Südstaaten
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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