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Author:

Jones, Cecily.

Title:

Engendering whiteness : white women and colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627-1865 / Cecily Jones.

Publisher:

Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,
Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xi, 237 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women, White--Barbados--History.--History.
Women, White--North Carolina--History.--History.
Slavery--Barbados--History.
Slavery--North Carolina--History.
Plantation life--Barbados--History.
Plantation life--North Carolina--History.
Barbados--History.--History.
North Carolina--History.--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-231) and index.

Contents:

Mapping racial boundaries: gender, race and poor relief in Barbados -- 'Worse than (white) men, much worse than the Negroes...': sexuality, labour and poor white women in North Carolina -- 'To serve her own desires': white women and property holding in Barbadian plantation society -- 'There may be my sphere of usefulness...': the making of a North Carolinian plantation mistress -- White lives, black bodies: Barbadian women and slaveholding -- 'She would labor almost night and day': white women, property rights and slaveholding in North Carolina.

Series:

Studies in imperialism

ISBN:

0719064325
9780719064326

OCLC:

(OCoLC)148906879

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)