Format:
XIII, 218 S.
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780230300705
Series Statement:
Genders and sexualities in history series
Content:
Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script she had been raised with in the North.
Content:
Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script she had been raised with in the North
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reading Letters, Telling Stories and Writing History; 1 "Everything Here is So Different": Changing Cultural Landscapes; 2 An Identity in Transit: From "True Woman" to "Southern Lady"; 3 Familial Relations: North and South; 4 Articulating a Southern Self: Georgia, Sunnyside and the Confederacy; 5 Reconstructing Southern Womanhood; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137291851
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230300705
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America : from Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
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