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

352 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction feminism history sociology
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This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first 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...

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