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: 1998
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: value: Contents: The work lives of plantation slave women; value: The work lives of plantation mistresses; value: Expectations of white womanhood; value: Plantation mistresses' behavior towards slave women; value: Plantation mistresses attitudes about slavery; value: Slave women confront the ideology of domesticity; value: Slave women and the meaning of womanhood; value: The experience of war; value: The transition to freedom; value: Toward the future.