Thavolia Glymph

Out of the House of Bondage

The Transformation of the Plantation Household

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Produktbeschreibung

Glymph challenges popular depictions of mistresses as 'friends' and 'allies' of slaves in the plantation household.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9780521703987
• ISBN-10: 0521703980
• Artikelnr.: 23413759

Autorenporträt

Thavolia Glymph (Ph.D. Economic History, Purdue University) is an Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies and History at Duke University. She has co-edited two volumes of the award-winning Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation series and published scholarly articles in five book collections. Glymph's far-ranging experience as a scholar and educator extends to various teaching appointments and museum projects. Her current work focuses on a comparative study of plantation households in Brazil and the US South, Civil War soldiers in Egypt after the Civil War, and a history of women in the Civil War.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The gender of violence
2. 'Beyond the limits of decency': women in slavery
3. Making 'better girls': Southern women and the claims of domesticity
4. 'Nothing but deception in them': the war within
5. Out of the house of bondage: a sundering of ties, 1865-6
6. 'A makeshift kind of life': free women and free homes
7. 'Wild notions of right and wrong': from home to the streets.