Out of the house of bondage : the transformation of the plantation household / Thavolia Glymph.
Glymph, Thavolia, 1951-
2008
E443 .G55 2008 (Mapit)
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Title Out of the house of bondage : the transformation of the plantation household / Thavolia Glymph.
Author Glymph, Thavolia, 1951-
ISBN 9780521703987 (pbk.)
0521703980 (pbk.)
9780521879019
0521879019
Imprint 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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"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.

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