Out of the House of Bondage : the Transformation of the Plantation Household.

Glymph challenges popular depictions of mistresses as 'friends' and 'allies' of slaves in the plantation household.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Glymph, Thavolia
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2003. ©2008
Subjects:	1775-1899 Plantation life > Southern States > History > 19th century. Enslaved women > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century. African American women > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century. Plantation owners' spouses > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century. Women, White > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century. Social distance > History > 19th century. Households > Southern States > History > 19th century. Patriarchy > Southern States > History > 19th century. African American women > Social conditions Households Manners and customs Patriarchy Plantation life Race relations Social distance Enslaved women > Social conditions Southern States > Social life and customs > 1775-1865. Southern States > Race relations > History > 19th century. Southern States History
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Table of Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Gender of Violence; 2 "Beyond the Limits of Decency": Women in Slavery; 3 Making "Better Girls": Mistresses, Slave Women, and the Claims of Domesticity; 4 "Nothing But Deception in Them": The War Within; 5 Out of the House of Bondage: A Sundering of Ties, 1865-1866; 6 "A Makeshift Kind of Life": Free Women and Free Homes; 7 "Wild Notions of Right and Wrong": From the Plantation Household to the Wider World; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

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