Masterful women : slaveholding widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War / / Kirsten E. Wood

• Autore: Wood Kirsten E
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Disciplina: 975/.03/08621
• Soggetto topico: Slaveholders - Southern States - History; Widows - Southern States - Social conditions; Widows - Southern States - Economic conditions; Slavery - Southern States - History; Widowhood - Southern States - History; Sex role - Southern States - History; Plantation life - Southern States - History
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States History 1775-1865; Southern States Social conditions; Southern States Race relations
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-266) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Broken Reeds; 2. The Management of Negroes; 3. The Strongest Ties That Bind Poor Mortals; 4. A Very Public Road; 5. The Leading Men and Women; 6. Worried in Body and Vexed in Heart; 7. What Will Become of Us!; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Many early-19th-century slaveholders considered themselves "masters" not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. This privilege was generally reserved for white males. But as many as one in ten slaveholders was a widow, and as this book demonstrates, slaveholding widows developed their own version of mastery.
• Titolo autorizzato: Masterful women
• ISBN: 979-88-908771-7-8; 0-8078-6377-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827416503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Gender & American culture.