The big house after slavery
Subtitle: Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment
By: Amy Feely Morsman.
Series: A nation divided : studies in the Civil War Era
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780813930039; 9780813930084
Subjects: Plantation life -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century; Plantation owners -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century; Families -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century; Social change -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century; Man-woman relationships -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century; Sex role -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century; Marriage -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century; Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century; Virginia -- Economic conditions -- 19th century; Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "By hard labour and close economy" : Virginia planters go to work; title: Keeping up appearances : a crisis of status in Virginia's postwar plantation households; title: "For our mutual protection and advancement" : planter families in Virginia's postbellum voluntary organizations; title: Baring Virginia's bosom for political gain : politicians, manhood, and debt; title: Abandoning the homestead : how the next generation embraced a new South.