Out of the House of Bondage The Transformation of the Plantation Household

Name: Out of the House of Bondage The Transformation of the Plantation Household
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ISBN: 9780521703987

ISBN-10: 0521703980

ISBN-13: 9780521703987

Edition: 2008

Authors: Thavolia Glymph

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This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless victims of the same patriarchal system responsible for the oppression of the enslaved. Glymph challenges popular depictions of plantation mistresses as "friends" and "allies" of slaves and sheds light on the political importance of ostensible private struggles, and on the political agendas at work in framing the domestic as private and household relations as personal.

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.09" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



The Gender of Violence



"Beyond the Limits of Decency": Women in Slavery



Making "Better Girls": Mistresses, Slave Women, and the Claims of Domesticity



"Nothing but Deception in Them": The War Within



Out of the House of Bondage: A Sundering of Ties, 1865-1866



"A Makeshift Kind of Life": Free Women and Free Homes



"Wild Notions of Right and Wrong": From the Plantation Household to the Wider World


Epilogue


Bibliography


Index