Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household by Thavolia Glymph

Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household

Thavolia Glymph

279 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective slow-paced
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This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than po...

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challenging 80%
informative 80%
reflective 60%
dark 40%
inspiring 40%
sad 20%
tense 20%

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medium 80%
slow 20%

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