TY  - BOOK
AU  - Glymph,Thavolia
TI  - Out of the house of bondage: the transformation of the plantation household 
SN  - 9780521703987
AV  - E 443 .G55 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Plantation life
KW  - Southern States
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Women slaves
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - African American women
KW  - Plantation owners' spouses
KW  - Women, White
KW  - Social distance
KW  - Households
KW  - Patriarchy
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 1775-1865
KW  - Race relations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-263) and index; Gender of violence --
 "Beyond the limits of decency": women in slavery --
 Making "better girls": mistresses, slave women, and the claims of domesticity --
 "Nothing but deception in them": the war within --
 Out of the house of bondage: a sundering of ties, 1865-1866 --
 "Makeshift kind of life": free women and free homes --
 "Wild notions of right and wrong": from the plantation household to the wider world
N2  - "This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless victims of the same patriarchal system responsible for the oppression of the enslaved. Glymph challenges popular depictions of plantation mistresses as "friends" and "allies" of slaves and sheds light on the political importance of ostensible private struggles, and on the political agendas at work in framing the domestic as private and household relations as personal."--Publisher's description
ER  -