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The big house after slavery : Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment / Amy Feely Morsman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morsman, Amy Feely, 1972-
- Series:
- Nation divided.
- Nation divided
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plantation life--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Plantation life.
- Plantation owners--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Plantation owners.
- Families--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Families.
- Social change--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Social change.
- Man-woman relationships--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Sex role--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Sex role.
- Marriage--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Marriage.
- Virginia--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Virginia.
- Virginia--Economic conditions--19th century.
- Virginia--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Morsman suggests that the planters' adaptations may have been carried forward by their adult children away from the crumbling plantations and into the urban households of the New South.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613585615
- 9781280490385
- 1280490381
- 9780813930084
- 0813930081
- OCLC:
- 759159951
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