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



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Autore: Morsman Amy Feely <1972-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The big house after slavery : Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment / / Amy Feely Morsman Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (291 p.)
Disciplina: 975.5/03
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Virginia Social life and customs 19th century
Virginia Economic conditions 19th century
Virginia Politics and government 1865-1950
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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The big house after slavery  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-49038-1
9786613585615
0-8139-3008-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817327203321
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