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Author Morsman, Amy Feely, 1972-

Title The big house after slavery : Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment / Amy Feely Morsman.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations.
data file
Physical Medium polychrome
Series Nation divided
Nation divided.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "By hard labour and close economy" : Virginia planters go to work -- Keeping up appearances : a crisis of status in Virginia's postwar plantation households -- "For our mutual protection and advancement" : planter families in Virginia's postbellum voluntary organizations -- Baring Virginia's bosom for political gain : politicians, manhood, and debt -- Abandoning the homestead : how the next generation embraced a new South.
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Language English.
Subject Plantation life -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
Plantation life.
Virginia.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Plantation owners -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
Plantation owners.
Families -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
Families.
Social change -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
Social change.
Man-woman relationships -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
Sex role -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
Man-woman relationships.
Marriage -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century.
Sex role.
Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Marriage.
Virginia -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Manners and customs.
Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1865-1950
Subject Economic conditions.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Economic history.
Chronological Term 1800-1950
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
History.
Subject Gender roles.
Marriage.
Other Form: Print version: Morsman, Amy Feely, 1972- Big house after slavery. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010 (DLC) 2009051916
ISBN 0813930081 (electronic book)
9780813930084 (electronic book)
1280490381
9781280490385
9786613585615
6613585610
0813930030 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780813930039