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Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America : From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress

Part of the Genders and Sexualities in History series
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Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder.

Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script she had been raised with in the North.

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Product Details
Palgrave Macmillan
0230300707 / 9780230300705
Hardback
23/11/2012
United Kingdom
English
256 p. : ill.
23 cm