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Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80
Marli F. Weiner
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Description for Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80
Paperback. Series: Women in American History. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 450.
Marli Weiner challenges much of the received wisdom on the domestic realm of the nineteenth-century southern plantation—a world in which white mistresses and female slaves labored together to provide food, clothing, and medicines to the larger plantation community. Black and white women, though divided by race, shared common female experiences and expectations of behavior. Influenced by work and gender as much as race, the mistresses and female slaves interacted with one another very differently than they did with men. Weiner draws on the women's own words to offer fresh interpretations of the ideology of domesticity that influenced women's race relations ... Read more
Marli Weiner challenges much of the received wisdom on the domestic realm of the nineteenth-century southern plantation—a world in which white mistresses and female slaves labored together to provide food, clothing, and medicines to the larger plantation community. Black and white women, though divided by race, shared common female experiences and expectations of behavior. Influenced by work and gender as much as race, the mistresses and female slaves interacted with one another very differently than they did with men. Weiner draws on the women's own words to offer fresh interpretations of the ideology of domesticity that influenced women's race relations ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Series
Women in American History
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252066238
SKU
V9780252066238
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About Marli F. Weiner
Marli F. Weiner (d. 2009) was Adelaide & Alan Bird Professor of History at the University of Maine. Her books include Sex, Sickness, and Slavery: Illness in the Antebellum South.
Reviews for Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80
"An original and provocative presentation of plantation women in the mid-nineteenth century. . . . Weiner provides one of the most detailed analyses of the South's ideology of domesticity, and she helps us to understand female agency in the shifting nature of Southern race relations."
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