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Out of the house of bondage : the transformation of the plantation household / Thavolia Glymph.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glymph, Thavolia, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plantation life--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Plantation life.
- Patriarchy.
- History.
- Households.
- Social distance.
- Women, White.
- Social conditions.
- Plantation owners' spouses.
- African American women.
- Enslaved women.
- Southern States.
- Enslaved women--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.
- African American women--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Plantation owners' spouses--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Women, White--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Social distance--History--19th century.
- Households--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Patriarchy--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Southern States--Social life and customs--1775-1865.
- Manners and customs.
- Southern States--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Race relations.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Gender of violence
- "Beyond the limits of decency": women in slavery
- Making "better girls": mistresses, slave women, and the claims of domesticity
- "Nothing but deception in them": the war within
- Out of the house of bondage: a sundering of ties, 1865-1866
- "Makeshift kind of life": free women and free homes
- "Wild notions of right and wrong": from the plantation household to the wider world.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-263) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780511812491
- 0511812493
- Publisher Number:
- 99972762105
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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