Title Out of the House of Bondage : the Transformation of the Plantation Household

Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2003 ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (295 pages) Contents Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Gender of Violence; 2 "Beyond the Limits of Decency": Women in Slavery; 3 Making "Better Girls": Mistresses, Slave Women, and the Claims of Domesticity; 4 "Nothing But Deception in Them": The War Within; 5 Out of the House of Bondage: A Sundering of Ties, 1865-1866; 6 "A Makeshift Kind of Life": Free Women and Free Homes; 7 "Wild Notions of Right and Wrong": From the Plantation Household to the Wider World; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index Summary Glymph challenges popular depictions of mistresses as 'friends' and 'allies' of slaves in the plantation household Notes Print version record 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 African American women -- Social conditions Households Manners and customs Patriarchy Plantation life Race relations Social distance Enslaved women -- Social conditions 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 Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780511423277 0511423276

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