Plantation Mistress Woman's World in the Old South

Name: Plantation Mistress Woman's World in the Old South
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ISBN: 9780394722535

ISBN-10: 0394722531

ISBN-13: 9780394722535

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Authors: Catherine Clinton

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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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/12/1984
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.17" wide x 8.01" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Catherine Clinton is an American historian and the author of many books, including Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil Warand Half-Sisters of History: Southern Women and the American Past.She is a contributor to The New Yorker.Christine Lunardini is a freelance writer who holds a Ph.D. in American History from Princeton. Her books include What Every American Should Know About Women's History: 200 Events That Shaped Our Destiny.