| Description |
xxviii, 330 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Papers of the Fort Hill Conference on Southern Culture, held at Clemson University in the spring of 1989. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-326). |
| Contents |
Precursor to the Victorian age : the concept of marriage and family as revealed in the correspondence of the Izard family of South Carolina / Wylma Wates -- Family and female identity in the Antebellum South : Sarah Gayle and her family / Elizabeth Fox-Genovese -- "An outrage upon nature " : incest and the law in the nineteenth-century South / Peter Bardaglio -- "Southern dishonor" : flesh, blood, race, and bondage / Catherine Clinton -- "Our family, white and black" : family and household in the Southern slaveholders' world view / Eugene Genovese -- Strategies of survival : free Negro families and the problem of slavery / James Roark and Michael Johnson -- Distress and discord in Virginia slave families, 1830-1860 / Brenda Stevenson. |
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Toward a kinder and gentler America : the Southern lady in the greening of the politics of the Old South / Eugene Genovese -- The Clays of Alabama : the impact of the Civil War on a Southern marriage / Carol Bleser and Frederick Heath -- House and home in the Victorian South : the cookbook as guide / Alan Grubb -- A family tradition of letters : the female Percys and the Brontëan mode / Bertram Wyatt-Brown -- The political economy of sharecropping families : blacks and poor whites in the rural South, 1865-1915 / Jacqueline Jones -- A woman made to suffer and be strong : Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1834-1907 / Virgina Burr -- A Victorian father : Josiah Gorgas and his family / Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins. |
| Subject |
Women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
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Women. |
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Southern States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
African American women -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
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African American women. |
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Families -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
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Families. |
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Marriage -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
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Marriage. |
| Indexed Term |
Women Social life History, 1845-1901 |
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United States |
| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Marriage. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Bleser, Carol K. Rothrock.
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Fort Hill Conference on Southern Culture (1989 : Clemson University)
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| ISBN |
0195060474 alkaline paper $24.95 |
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