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Pages: 332
Authors: Marli Frances Weiner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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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 f
They Were Her Property
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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 “Stunning.�
Out of the House of Bondage
Language: en
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Authors: Thavolia Glymph
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The plantation household was, first and foremost, a site of production. This fundamental fact has generally been overshadowed by popular and scholarly images of