03170nam 2200769 a 450 991081732720332120240418044726.01-280-49038-197866135856150-8139-3008-1(CKB)2550000000051901(OCoLC)759159951(CaPaEBR)ebrary10495628(SSID)ssj0000565623(PQKBManifestationID)11367214(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000565623(PQKBWorkID)10533165(PQKB)11160639(MiAaPQ)EBC3443993(MdBmJHUP)muse6630(Au-PeEL)EBL3443993(CaPaEBR)ebr10495628(CaONFJC)MIL358561(EXLCZ)99255000000005190120091211d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe big house after slavery Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment /Amy Feely Morsman1st ed.Charlottesville University of Virginia Press20101 online resource (291 p.) Nation dividedBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8139-3003-0 Includes bibliographical references and index."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.Morsman suggests that the planters' adaptations may have been carried forward by their adult children away from the crumbling plantations and into the urban households of the New South.Nation divided.Plantation lifeVirginiaHistory19th centuryPlantation ownersVirginiaHistory19th centuryFamiliesVirginiaHistory19th centurySocial changeVirginiaHistory19th centuryMan-woman relationshipsVirginiaHistory19th centurySex roleVirginiaHistory19th centuryMarriageVirginiaHistory19th centuryVirginiaSocial life and customs19th centuryVirginiaEconomic conditions19th centuryVirginiaPolitics and government1865-1950Plantation lifeHistoryPlantation ownersHistoryFamiliesHistorySocial changeHistoryMan-woman relationshipsHistorySex roleHistoryMarriageHistory975.5/03Morsman Amy Feely1972-1678258MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817327203321The big house after slavery4045731UNINA