Format:
Online-Ressource (295 p.)
ISBN:
9780521879019
Content:
Glymph challenges popular depictions of mistresses as 'friends' and 'allies' of slaves in the plantation household
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Gender of Violence; 2 "Beyond the Limits of Decency": Women in Slavery; 3 Making "Better Girls": Mistresses, Slave Women, and the Claims of Domesticity; 4 "Nothing But Deception in Them": The War Within; 5 Out of the House of Bondage: A Sundering of Ties, 1865-1866; 6 "A Makeshift Kind of Life": Free Women and Free Homes; 7 "Wild Notions of Right and Wrong": From the Plantation Household to the Wider World; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780511423277
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521879019
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Out of the House of Bondage : The Transformation of the Plantation Household
Language:
English
Keywords:
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