A review by avasisx
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

5.0

This was so fascinating. It was interesting how court documents and newspapers adverts/announcements provided evidence of this dark side of history. White women are painted with an angelic brush but that is wishful ignorant thinking. Why would white women have treated enslaved people differently to white men? People like to believe white women were helpless people stuck in a misogynistic world and they were the oppressed, and while this is true, they were certainly big oppressors in their own right and to diminish that is fantasy. This book opened the door to that conversation. 5/5. I listened to the audiobook and I might buy the physical copy cause I'd love to be able to annotate.