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Out of the house of bondage : the transformation of the plantation household / / Thavolia Glymph [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Glymph Thavolia <1951-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Out of the house of bondage : the transformation of the plantation household / / Thavolia Glymph [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 307.72082/097509034
Soggetto topico: Plantation life - Southern States - History - 19th century
Women slaves - Southern States - Social conditions - 19th century
African American women - Southern States - Social conditions - 19th century
Plantation owners' spouses - Southern States - Social conditions - 19th century
Women, White - Southern States - Social conditions - 19th century
Social distance - History - 19th century
Households - Southern States - History - 19th century
Patriarchy - Southern States - History - 19th century
Soggetto geografico: Southern States Social life and customs 1775-1865
Southern States Race relations History 19th century
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Gender of violence -- "Beyond the limits of decency": women in slavery -- Making "better girls": mistresses, slave women, and the claims of domesticity -- "Nothing but deception in them": the war within -- Out of the house of bondage: a sundering of ties, 1865-1866 -- "Makeshift kind of life": free women and free homes -- "Wild notions of right and wrong": from the plantation household to the wilder world.
Sommario/riassunto: The plantation household was, first and foremost, a site of production. This fundamental fact has generally been overshadowed by popular and scholarly images of the plantation household as the source of slavery's redeeming qualities, where 'gentle' mistresses ministered to 'loyal' slaves. This book recounts a very different story. The very notion of a private sphere, as divorced from the immoral excesses of chattel slavery as from the amoral logic of market laws, functioned to conceal from public scrutiny the day-to-day struggles between enslaved women and their mistresses, subsumed within a logic of patriarchy. One of emancipation's unsung consequences was precisely the exposure to public view of the unbridgeable social distance between the women on whose labor the plantation household relied and the women who employed them. This is a story of race and gender, nation and citizenship, freedom and bondage in the nineteenth century South; a big abstract story that is composed of equally big personal stories.
Titolo autorizzato: Out of the house of bondage  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-107-38651-9
1-107-18370-7
1-281-77577-0
9786611775773
0-511-81249-3
0-511-42378-0
0-511-42261-X
0-511-42426-4
0-511-42195-8
0-511-42327-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910453606203321
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