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Out of the House of Bondage
2003,2008,2012
Overview
The plantation household was, first and foremost, a site of production. This fundamental fact has generally been overshadowed by popular and scholarly images of the plantation household as the source of slavery's redeeming qualities, where 'gentle' mistresses ministered to 'loyal' slaves. This book recounts a very different story. The very notion of a private sphere, as divorced from the immoral excesses of chattel slavery as from the amoral logic of market laws, functioned to conceal from public scrutiny the day-to-day struggles between enslaved women and their mistresses, subsumed within a logic of patriarchy. One of emancipation's unsung consequences was precisely the exposure to public view of the unbridgeable social distance between the women on whose labor the plantation household relied and the women who employed them. This is a story of race and gender, nation and citizenship, freedom and bondage in the nineteenth century South; a big abstract story that is composed of equally big personal stories.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Subject
/ African American women -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
/ History
/ Households -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
/ Patriarchy -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
/ Plantation life -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
/ Plantation owners' spouses -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
/ Slaves
/ Social distance -- History -- 19th century
/ Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
/ Southern States -- Social life and customs -- 1775-1865
/ Women slaves -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
/ Women, White -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
ISBN
0521703980, 9780521703987, 9780521879019, 0521879019
