The Plantation Mistress
352 pages1984PantheonISBN 9780394722535
MistressesPatriarchyPlantation lifePlantation owners' spousesSex customsSlaveholdersSocial life and customsWomen plantation ownersPlantation owners' wivesWomen, united states, historySouthern states, social conditionsPatriarchy--southern statesSlaveholders--southern statesWomen plantation owners--southern statesPlantation owners' spouses--southern statesHq1438.a13 c58 1982
About this book
This study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers a 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, the author sets before us the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Published
- 1984
- Pages
- 352
- ISBN
- 9780394722535
About Unknown Author
Catherine Clinton is the Denman Professor of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio, a post she took up in August 2014. She continues as an international research professor in the School of History and Anthropology at her former university Queen's University Belfast. She specializes in American History, with an emphasis on the history of the South, the American Civil War, American women, and African American history. - Wikipedia
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