The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South Paperback - 1984
by Catherine Clinton
First line
In 1620 ninety maids landed in Virginia, a gift from the proprietors to the colony.
From the rear cover
This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master.
"The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it.
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This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master.
"The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it.
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- Title The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South
- Author Catherine Clinton
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pantheon Books, New York
- Date February 12, 1984
- ISBN 9780394722535 / 0394722531
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 7.97 x 5.18 x 0.69 in (20.24 x 13.16 x 1.75 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Civil War
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress subjects Southern States - Social life and customs -, Slaveholders - Southern States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 82003549
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.420
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