Out of the house of bondage : the transformation of the plantation household / Thavolia Glymph.
2008
E443 .G55 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Out of the house of bondage : the transformation of the plantation household / Thavolia Glymph.
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ISBN
9780521703987 (pbk.)
0521703980 (pbk.)
9780521879019
0521879019
0521703980 (pbk.)
9780521879019
0521879019
Publication Details
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 279 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
E443 .G55 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
307.72082/097509034
Summary
Glymph challenges popular depictions of mistresses as 'friends' and 'allies' of slaves in the plantation household.
Note
Glymph challenges popular depictions of mistresses as 'friends' and 'allies' of slaves in the plantation household.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
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 wilder world.
"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 wilder world.