Title Bonds of womanhood : slavery and the decline of a Kentucky plantation / Susanna Delfino

Published Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 201 pages) Summary "Class, race, and gender collide in this insightful examination of the life of Susanna (Susan) Preston Shelby Grigsby (1830-1890)-a white plantation mistress and slaveholder who struggled to participate in the economic modernization of antebellum Kentucky. Drawing on Grigsby's correspondence, author Susanna Delfino uses Grigsby's story to explore the complex cultural and social issues at play in the state's economy before, during, and after the Civil War. Delfino demonstrates that Grigsby engaged in certain kinds of abolitionist activism, such as hiring white servants as a way of conveying her support for free labor and avoiding ever selling an enslaved person. Despite her beliefs, however, Grigsby failed to hold to her moral compass when faced with her husband's patriarchal authority or when she experienced serious economic trouble. This compelling study not only illuminates how white women participated in the South's nineteenth-century economy, but also offers new perspectives on their complicity in slavery"-- Provided by publisher Notes Description based on print version record Subject Grigsby, Susan Preston Shelby, 1830-1891 -- Ethics SUBJECT Grigsby, Susan Preston Shelby, 1830-1891 -- Ethics Grigsby, Susan Preston Shelby, 1830-1891 fast Subject Slavery -- Social aspects -- Kentucky -- 19th century Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Kentucky -- 19th century African American women -- Kentucky -- Social conditions -- 19th century Women, White -- Kentucky -- Economic conditions -- 19th century Women, White -- Kentucky -- Social conditions -- 19th century Social change -- Kentucky -- 19th century Women, White -- Kentucky -- 19th century -- Biography Women, White Social change Slavery -- Social aspects Slavery -- Economic aspects Ethics African American women -- Social conditions Kentucky Genre/Form collective biographies. Biographies Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021049365 ISBN 9780813154855 0813154855 9780813154886 081315488X

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