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 planter wives and daughters, the author sets before us the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master.
Book Details
Format
Paperback
ISBN-10
0394722531
ISBN-13
9780394722535
Publication Date
Feb 1984
Item Weight
0.67 pounds
Length
7.95 inch
Width
5.20 inch
Height
0.79 inch
First Sentence
In 1620 ninety maids landed in Virginia, a gift from the proprietors to the colony.
Catherine Clinton is the Denman Professor of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio, a post she took up in August 2014. She continues as an international research professor in the School of History and Anthropology at her former university Queen's University Belfast. She specializes in American History, with an emphasis on the history of the South, the American Civil War, American women, and African American history. - Wikipedia
