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Mistresses and slaves : plantation women in South Carolina, 1830-80
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- Creator
- Marli F. Weiner
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1997]
- ©1997
- Series
- Physical Details
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- xii, 308 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780252023224, 0252023226, 9780252066238, 0252066235
- OCLC
- ocm35762724
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Pt. 1. Women's Work. 1. The Work Lives of Plantation Slave Women. 2. The Work Lives of Plantation Mistresses -- Pt. 2. Expectations and Interactions. 3. Expectations for White Womanhood. 4. Plantation Mistresses' Behavior toward Slave Women. 5. Plantation Mistresses' Attitudes toward Slavery. 6. Slave Women Confront the Ideology of Domesticity. 7. Slave Women and the Meaning of Womanhood -- Pt. 3. The War and Its Aftermath. 8. The Experience of War. 9. The Transition to Freedom. 10. Toward the Future