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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781610903321

Autore

Morsman Amy Feely <1972->

Titolo

The big house after slavery [[electronic resource] ] : Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment / / Amy Feely Morsman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010

ISBN

1-280-49038-1

9786613585615

0-8139-3008-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (291 p.)

Collana

Nation divided

Disciplina

975.5/03

Soggetti

Plantation life - Virginia - History - 19th century

Plantation owners - Virginia - History - 19th century

Families - Virginia - History - 19th century

Social change - Virginia - History - 19th century

Man-woman relationships - Virginia - History - 19th century

Sex role - Virginia - History - 19th century

Marriage - Virginia - History - 19th century

Virginia Social life and customs 19th century

Virginia Economic conditions 19th century

Virginia Politics and government 1865-1950

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

"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.