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Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America : From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress / by Rebecca Fraser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fraser, Rebecca J., 1978-
- Series:
- Genders and Sexualities in History, 2730-9487
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History.
- United States.
- History, Modern.
- Social history.
- America--History.
- America.
- US History.
- Modern History.
- Social History.
- History of the Americas.
- Local Subjects:
- US History.
- Modern History.
- Social History.
- History of the Americas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2013.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script she had been raised with in the North.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reading Letters, Telling Stories and Writing History; 1 ""Everything Here is So Different"": Changing Cultural Landscapes; 2 An Identity in Transit: From ""True Woman"" to ""Southern Lady""; 3 Familial Relations: North and South; 4 Articulating a Southern Self: Georgia, Sunnyside and the Confederacy; 5 Reconstructing Southern Womanhood; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781283867849
- 1283867842
- 9781137291851
- 1137291850
- OCLC:
- 819421445
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