Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

544 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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, lette...

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