Engendering whiteness : white women and colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627-1865 / Cecily Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Cecily, author.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women, White--North Carolina--Social conditions--17th century.

Women, White.

Women, White--North Carolina--Social conditions--18th century.

Women, White--North Carolina--Social conditions--19th century.

Women, White--Barbados--Social conditions--17th century.

Women, White--Barbados--Social conditions--18th century.

Women, White--Barbados--Social conditions--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

'Engendering Whiteness' examines the complex diversity of slaveholding and non-slaveholding white women's material realities within the slave societies of Barbados and North Carolina between the 17th-19th centuries.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

General editors introduction

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

1 Mapping racial boundaries

2 Worse than [white] men, much worse than the Negroes. ..

3 To serve her own desires

4 There may be my sphere of usefulness. ..

5 White lives, black bodies

6 She Would Labor Almost Night and Day

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

AcknowledgementsList of abbreviations Introduction1.Mapping racial boundaries: Gender, race and poor relief in Barbados 2. 'Worse than [white] men, much worse than the negroes...': Sexuality, labour and poor white women in North Carolina 3. To serve her own desires': White Barbadian women and property holding4. 'There may be my sphere of usefulness...': The making of a North Carolinian plantation mistress5. White Lives, Black Bodies: Barbadian women and slaveholding6.'She Would Labor Almost Night and Day': White women, property rights and slave-holding in North CarolinaConclusionsBibliographyIndex.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 9, 2026).

OCLC:

1232846123