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Author:

Morsman, Amy Feely, 1972-

Title:

The big house after slavery : Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment / Amy Feely Morsman.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xii, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Plantation life--Virginia--History--19th century.
Plantation owners--Virginia--History--19th century.
Families--Virginia--History--19th century.
Social change--Virginia--History--19th century.
Man-woman relationships--Virginia--History--19th century.
Sex role--Virginia--History--19th century.
Marriage--Virginia--History--19th century.
Virginia--Social life and customs--19th century.
Virginia--Economic conditions--19th century.
Virginia--Politics and government--1865-1950.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"By hard labour and close economy" : Virginia planters go to work -- Keeping up appearances : a crisis of status in Virginia's postwar plantation households -- "For our mutual protection and advancement" : planter families in Virginia's postbellum voluntary organizations -- Baring Virginia's bosom for political gain : politicians, manhood, and debt -- Abandoning the homestead : how the next generation embraced a new South.

Series:

A nation divided

ISBN:

0813930081 (e-book)
9780813930084 (e-book)
0813930030 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813930039 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)490078799

LCCN:

2009051916

Locations:

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