Format:
xvii, 544 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
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25 cm
ISBN:
9780807842324
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9780807818084
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0807818089
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080784232X
Series Statement:
Gender & American culture
Content:
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 ...
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 463-529
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Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
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Sociology
Keywords:
USA
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Frau
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Plantage
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USA
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Plantage
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Plantagenwirtschaft
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Weibliche Weiße
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Schwarze Frau
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Sklaverei
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Geschichte 1820-1865
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USA
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Schwarze
;
Frau
;
Plantage
Author information:
Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth 1941-2007
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