The Big House After Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment

by Amy Feely Morsman

The Big House after Slavery examines the economic, social, and political challenges that Virginia planter families faced following Confederate defeat and emancipation. Amy Feely Morsman addresses how men and women of the planter class responded to postwar problems and how their adaptations to life without slavery altered their marital relationships and their conceptions of gender roles.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813930030
• ISBN13: 9780813930039
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher