Mistresses and Slaves: Plantation Women in South Carolina, 1830-80

by Marli F. Weiner

Book Overview

Marli Weiner challenges much of the received wisdom on the domestic realm of the nineteenth-century southern plantation--a world in which white mistresses and female slaves labored together to provide food, clothing, and medicines to the larger plantation community. Black and white women, though divided by race, shared common female experiences and expectations of behavior. Influenced by work and gender as much as race, the mistresses and female slaves...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252066235
• ISBN13: 9780252066238
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"