The plantation mistress

Description:

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.

subjects: Mistresses,  Patriarchy,  Plantation life,  Plantation owners' spouses,  Sex customs,  Slaveholders,  Social life and customs,  Women plantation owners,  Plantation owners' wives,  Women, united states, history,  Southern states, social conditions,  Patriarchy--southern states,  Slaveholders--southern states,  Women plantation owners--southern states,  Plantation owners' spouses--southern states,  Hq1438.a13 c58 1982,  Women,  History

Places: Southern States

Times: 1775-1865