Title Masterful women : slaveholding widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War / Kirsten E. Wood.

Publication Info.	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
	©2004

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	E443 .W666 2004	Available	---

Description	xiii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series	Gender and American culture
	Gender & American culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-266) and index.
Contents	The management of Negroes -- The strongest ties that bind poor mortals -- A very public road -- The leading men and women -- Worried in body and vexed in heart -- What will become of us!
Subject	Slaveholders -- Southern States -- History.
	Slaveholders.
	Southern States.
	History.
	Widows -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
	Widows.
	Social conditions.
	Widows -- Southern States -- Economic conditions.
	Economic conditions.
	Slavery -- Southern States -- History.
	Slavery.
	Widowhood -- Southern States -- History.
	Widowhood.
	Sex role -- Southern States -- History.
	Sex role.
	Plantation life -- Southern States -- History.
	Plantation life.
	Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865.
Chronological Term	1775-1865
Subject	Southern States -- Social conditions.
	Southern States -- Race relations.
	Race relations.
	Gender roles.
ISBN	0807828599 cloth alkaline paper
	0807855286 paperback alkaline paper