Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South [ebook ed.] 1611178711, 9781611178715

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South 9780300245103

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy

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Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution Through the Civil War 0807828599, 9780807828595

Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves "masters" not only over slaves, but also over

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White Shadows in the South Seas 9781296096274

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Masterful Women : Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War<BR> [1 ed.] 9780807863770, 9780807855287

Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves "masters" not only over slaves, but also over

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The crucible of race: Black/White relations in the American South since emancipation 9780195033823, 9780198020493

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Women of the American South: A Multicultural Reader 9780814728642

Among the most prominent icons of the American south is that of the southern belle, immortalized by such figures as Scar

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The Fair Sex: White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic 9780814739976

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2002 Once the egalitarian passions of the American Revolution had dimmed, the new nati

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Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism 9780316487795, 0316487791

Journalist Seyward Darby's "masterfully reported and incisive" (Nell Irvin Painter) exposé pulls back the

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Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South 9780801454332

In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a cen

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Prohibition in South Dakota: Astride the White Mule 9781439657799, 2016939309

South Dakota has always had an intermittent relationship with prohibition. Constantly changing legislation kept citizens

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