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Author:

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E., author.

Title:

They were her property : white women as slave owners in the American South / Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers.

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xx, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Slaveholders--Southern States--History.
Slavery--Southern States--History--18th century.
Slavery--Southern States--History--19th century.
Southern States--Social conditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Mistresses of the Market -- Mistresses in the Making -- "I Belong to de Mistis" -- "Missus Done Her Own Bossing" -- "She Thought She Could Find a Better Market" -- "Wet Nurse for Sale or Hire" -- "That 'Oman Took Delight in Sellin' Slaves" -- "Her Slaves Have Been Liberated and Lost to Her" -- "A Most Unprecedented Robbery" -- Epilogue: Lost Kindred, Lost Cause.

Summary:

"Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South's slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0300218664
9780300218664

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1085547912

Locations:

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

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

RZPE145 -- Carroll Public Library (Carroll)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)