num_pages: 350
description: In a new book that has important implications for our vision of the female past, Suzanne Lebsock examines the question, Did the position of women in America deteriorate or improve in the first half of the nineteenth century? Winner of the Bancroft Prize for 1985.
language: English
title: The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860
titlecomplete: The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860
genres: History, American History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 55
places: Petersburg, Virginia
awards: awardedAt: 473414400000
name: Bancroft Prize
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company