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Title:
Out of the house of bondage : the transformation of the plantation household / Thavolia Glymph.
Author:
Glymph, Thavolia, 1951-
Publication Information:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

©2008
Call Number:
E443 .G55 2008
Abstract:
"This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless victims of the same patriarchal system responsible for the oppression of the enslaved. Glymph challenges popular depictions of plantation mistresses as "friends" and "allies" of slaves and sheds light on the political importance of ostensible private struggles, and on the political agendas at work in framing the domestic as private and household relations as personal."--Publisher's description.
ISBN:
9780521879019

9780521703987
Physical Description:
xiii, 279 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Introduction -- Gender of Violence -- "Beyond the Limits of Decency": Women in Slavery -- Making "Better Girls": Mistresses, Slave Women, and the Claims of Domesticity -- "Nothing but Deception in Them": The War Within -- Out of the House of Bondage: A Sundering of Ties, 1865-1866 -- "Makeshift Kind of Life": Free Women and Free Homes -- "Wild Notions of Right and Wrong": From the Plantation Household to the Wider World.
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