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.