Mistresses and slaves : plantation women in South Carolina, 1830-80 /

Mistresses and slaves : plantation women in South Carolina, 1830-80 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator: Weiner, Marli Frances, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1998]
Series:Women in American history.
Subjects:
19th century
Enslaved women > South Carolina > Social conditions.
Enslaved women.
Sex role.
History.
Plantation life.
Plantation owners' spouses.
Social conditions.
Plantation owners' spouses > South Carolina > Social conditions.
Plantation life > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
Race relations.
Sex role > South Carolina > History > 19th century.
Gender roles.
South Carolina.
South Carolina > Race relations.
Table of Contents:
  • The work lives of plantation slave women
  • The work lives of plantation mistresses
  • Expectations of white womanhood
  • Plantation mistresses' behavior towards slave women
  • Plantation mistresses attitudes about slavery
  • Slave women confront the ideology of domesticity
  • Slave women and the meaning of womanhood
  • The experience of war
  • The transition to freedom
  • Toward the future.

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