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

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

"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 corresponden...

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Author / Creator: Delfino, Susanna, 1949- (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2021]
Subjects:
Grigsby, Susan Preston Shelby, > 1830-1891 > Ethics.
Grigsby, Susan Preston Shelby, > 1830-1891
1800-1899
African American women > Kentucky > Social conditions > 19th century.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Kentucky > 19th century.
Slavery > Social aspects > Kentucky > 19th century.
Social change > Kentucky > 19th century.
Women, White > Kentucky > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Women, White > Kentucky > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women, White > Kentucky > 19th century > Biography.
African American women > Social conditions
Ethics
Slavery > Economic aspects
Slavery > Social aspects
Social change
Women, White
Kentucky
Biographies.
Biographies
collective biographies.
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