Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women,
this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and …

" One of those rare books that quickly became the standard work in its field."—Anne Firor
Scott, Duke University Living with the dual burdens of racism and sexism, slave women in …

Discovering the Women in Slavery is a collection of fourteen original essays on women's
experiences of slavery in America, researched and written from gender-and women-focused …

The third edition of Southern Women relays the historical narrative of both black and white
women in the patriarchal South. Covering primarily the years between 1800 and 1865, it …

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History A bold and searing investigation into
the role of white women in the American slave economy “Compelling.”—Renee Graham …

Marli Weiner challenges much of the received wisdom on the domestic realm of the
nineteenth-century southern plantation--a world in which white mistresses and female …

When Confederate men marched off to battle, white women across the South confronted
unaccustomed and unsought responsibilities: directing farms and plantations, providing for …

Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a dramatic history of the South in the years leading up
to and following the Civil War: a history that focuses on the women, black and white, rich and …

African-American women fought for their freedom with courage and vigor during and after
the Civil War. Leslie Schwalm explores the vital roles of enslaved and formerly enslaved …

This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at
the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the …