Within the Plantation Household

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Within the Plantation Household is written by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and published by UNC Press Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0807864226 (ISBN 10) and 9780807864227 (ISBN 13).

Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women’s experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand antebellum southern women by applying models derived from New England sources.