Mistresses and slaves
Subtitle: plantation women in South Carolina, 1830-80
By: Marli F. Weiner.
Series: Women in American history
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Women slaves -- South Carolina -- Social conditions; Plantation owners' spouses -- South Carolina -- Social conditions; Plantation life -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century; Sex role -- South Carolina -- History -- 19th century; South Carolina -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The work lives of plantation slave women; title: The work lives of plantation mistresses; title: Expectations of white womanhood; title: Plantation mistresses' behavior towards slave women; title: Plantation mistresses attitudes about slavery; title: Slave women confront the ideology of domesticity; title: Slave women and the meaning of womanhood; title: The experience of war; title: The transition to freedom; title: Toward the future.