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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786584103321

Autore

Fraser Rebecca

Titolo

Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America [[electronic resource] ] : From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress / / by Rebecca Fraser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013

ISBN

1-283-86784-2

1-137-29185-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

Genders and Sexualities in History, , 2730-9479

Disciplina

305.30973

973.6092

Soggetti

United States—History

History, Modern

Social history

America—History

US History

Modern History

Social History

History of the Americas

United States Social conditions To 1865

United States Social conditions 1865-1918

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.