Out of the House of Bondage : the Transformation of the Plantation Household.
Glymph challenges popular depictions of mistresses as 'friends' and 'allies' of slaves in the plantation household.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
©2008 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Gender of Violence; 2 "Beyond the Limits of Decency": Women in Slavery; 3 Making "Better Girls": Mistresses, Slave Women, and the Claims of Domesticity; 4 "Nothing But Deception in Them": The War Within; 5 Out of the House of Bondage: A Sundering of Ties, 1865-1866; 6 "A Makeshift Kind of Life": Free Women and Free Homes; 7 "Wild Notions of Right and Wrong": From the Plantation Household to the Wider World; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.