The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World In The Old South by Catherine Clinton

The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World In The Old South

Catherine Clinton

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nonfiction feminism history sociology
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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 plante...

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