Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South

Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand antebellum southern women by applying models derived from New England sources.

Author: Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 12/09/1988
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.84lbs
Size: 9.27h x 5.97w x 1.51d
ISBN: 9780807842324

About the Author
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth: - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (1941-2007) was Eleonore Raoul Professor of the Humanities and professor of history at Emory University. Her other books include Feminism Without Illusions: A Critique of Individualism and Fruits of Merchant Capital: Slavery and Bourgeois Property in the Rise and Expansion of Capitalism.