Bonds of Womanhood : Slavery and the Decline of a Kentucky Plantation /

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"Class, race, and gender collide in this insightful examination of the life of Susanna (Susan) Preston Shelby Grigsby (1830-1890)-a white plantation mistress and slaveholder who struggled to participate in the economic modernization of antebellum Kentucky. Drawing on Grigsby's corresponden...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Delfino, Susanna, 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Grigsby, Susan Preston Shelby, > 1830-1891.
Grigsby, Susan Preston Shelby, > 1830-1891 > Ethics.
Women, White.
Social change.
Slavery > Social aspects.
Slavery > Economic aspects.
Ethics.
African American women > Social conditions.
Slavery > Social aspects > Kentucky > 19th century.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Kentucky > 19th century.
African American women > Kentucky > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women, White > Kentucky > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Women, White > Kentucky > Social conditions > 19th century.
Social change > Kentucky > 19th century.
Women, White > Kentucky > 19th century > Biography.
Kentucky.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"Class, race, and gender collide in this insightful examination of the life of Susanna (Susan) Preston Shelby Grigsby (1830-1890)-a white plantation mistress and slaveholder who struggled to participate in the economic modernization of antebellum Kentucky. Drawing on Grigsby's correspondence, author Susanna Delfino uses Grigsby's story to explore the complex cultural and social issues at play in the state's economy before, during, and after the Civil War. Delfino demonstrates that Grigsby engaged in certain kinds of abolitionist activism, such as hiring white servants as a way of conveying her support for free labor and avoiding ever selling an enslaved person. Despite her beliefs, however, Grigsby failed to hold to her moral compass when faced with her husband's patriarchal authority or when she experienced serious economic trouble. This compelling study not only illuminates how white women participated in the South's nineteenth-century economy, but also offers new perspectives on their complicity in slavery"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (214 pages).
ISBN:9780813154886

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