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Author Weiner, Marli Frances, 1953-

Title Mistresses and slaves : plantation women in South Carolina, 1830-80 / Marli F. Weiner.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1998]
©1998

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  E445.S7 W45 1998  1998    Available  ---
Description xii, 308 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Women in American history
Women in American history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-291) and index.
Contents Women's work: The work lives of plantation slave women ; The work lives of plantation mistresses -- Expectations and interactions: Expectations of white womanhood ; Plantation mistresses' behavior toward slave women ; Plantation mistresses attitudes toward slavery ; Slave women confront the ideology of domesticity ; Slave women and the meaning of womanhood -- The war and its aftermath: The experience of war ; The transition to freedom ; Toward the future.
Subject Enslaved women -- South Carolina -- Social conditions.
Enslaved women.
South Carolina.
Social conditions.
Plantation owners' spouses -- South Carolina -- Social conditions.
Plantation owners' spouses.
Plantation life -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century.
Plantation life.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject South Carolina -- Race relations.
Race relations.
Sex role -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century.
Sex role.
Gender roles.
ISBN 0252066235 paperback alkaline paper
0252023226 acid-free paper