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Author:

Weiner, Marli Frances, 1953-

Title:

Mistresses and slaves : plantation women in South Carolina, 1830-80 / Marli F. Weiner.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c1998

Description:

xii, 308 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women slaves--South Carolina--Social conditions.
Plantation owners' spouses--South Carolina--Social conditions.
Plantation life--South Carolina--History--19th century.
Sex role--South Carolina--History--19th century.
South Carolina--Race relations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-291) and index.

Contents:

Women's work: The work lives of plantation slave women ; The work lives of plantation mistresses -- Expectations and interactions: Expectations of white womanhood ; Plantation mistresses' behavior toward slave women ; Plantation mistresses attitudes toward slavery ; Slave women confront the ideology of domesticity ; Slave women and the meaning of womanhood -- The war and its aftermath: The experience of war ; The transition to freedom ; Toward the future.

Series:

Women in American history

ISBN:

9780252066238 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252066235 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780252023224 (acid-free paper)
0252023226 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)38420356

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls) — E445.S7 W45 1998

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)