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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
7 reviews
princxporkchop's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Chronic illness, Kidnapping, Terminal illness, Slavery, Child abuse, Murder, Medical content, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Blood, Child death, Genocide, Misogyny, Torture, Miscarriage, Racism, Ableism, Sexual assault, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Infertility, Physical abuse, Trafficking, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Confinement, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Rape, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Pedophilia, and Gore
wolf013's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Classism, Kidnapping, Murder, Torture, Violence, Xenophobia, Death, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Slavery, War, Colonisation, Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse
Moderate: Hate crime, Child death, and Miscarriage
Minor: Rape, Sexual violence, and Sexual assault
djspiderman's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Violence, Racism, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Slavery, Sexual assault, Rape, Murder, Child death, and Torture
bootsmom3's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Child death, Cursing, Death, Murder, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Torture, Child abuse, Racial slurs, Rape, Violence, Classism, Confinement, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Gore, Infidelity, and Slavery
adrigodebison's review against another edition
4.5
(I would also suggest looking at the content warnings)
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Violence, Child death, Colonisation, Sexual violence, Slavery, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Genocide, Racial slurs, and Torture
Moderate: Rape
c100's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Slavery, Colonisation, Religious bigotry, Racism, Gore, Racial slurs, Violence, Torture, Sexual violence, Genocide, and Physical abuse
Moderate: War and Rape
allisonwonderlandreads's review against another edition
4.0
I love returning to academic nonfiction for the miles of footnotes and precise connections between evidence and argument. This book is especially compelling for the variety of source material and for consulting overlooked and dismissed accounts. Newspapers, court documents, and contracts are bolstered with white women's diaries and personal or business correspondence. The author also directly quotes from WPA interviews with formerly enslaved people, who give valuable insights into the actions and thoughts of their mistresses in the home, where no written records reach. Their voices are one of the most powerful aspects of the book beyond the strengths of the central thesis.
What most struck me about this book, of the many carefully laid arguments, was the concept that slavery was inescapable in the United States, especially but not limited to life in the South. It permeated public and private spheres, it was the economic foundation of society, and there was no way to shield white women from its practices, even to support a feminine ideal. And the author makes it clear that this futile goal wasn't even actively sought. White women were taught how to be slave mistresses from childhood, they received slaves in their own right to mark important life events, and they were more than capable of managing their own wealth whether through business (buying/selling/hiring) decisions or philosophy towards the care and discipline of slaves they owned.
I highly recommend this as an opportunity to reevaluate your understanding of a crucial, dark aspect of American history with clear implications for current events. It's especially important for white women to become familiar with this information not only as a way of taking responsibility for our own history but to prevent ourselves from becoming comfortable in a harmful, fallacious white feminism viewpoint.
Graphic: Racism, Racial slurs, and Slavery
Moderate: Torture, Child abuse, Murder, Violence, Physical abuse, Rape, and Sexual assault
Minor: War, Body horror, Confinement, and Child death