Name/Title
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation HouseholdEntry/Object ID
2017.004.4Description
Examines 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. 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.
Contents: The 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 -- "A Makeshift Kind of Life": Free Women and Free homes -- "Wild Notions of Right and Wrong": From the Plantation Household to the Streets
xiii, 279 p. ; 24 cm. (softcover)Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation LibraryAcquisition
Accession
2017.004Source or Donor
Archives/Library Purchases (2017)Acquisition Method
PurchasedCredit Line
Restricted Book/Archives Acquisition Fund PurchaseLexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
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BookNomenclature Sub-Class
Other DocumentsNomenclature Class
Documentary ObjectsNomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Plantation life--Southern States--History--19th century, Slaves--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century, African American women--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century, Plantation owners' spouses--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century, Women, White--Southern States--Social conditions--19th century, Households--Southern States--History--19th century, Patriarchy--Southern States--History--19th century, Southern States--Social life and customs--1775-1865, Southern States--Race relations--History--19th centuryBook Details
Author
Glymph, Thavolia, 1951-Publisher
Cambridge University PressDate Published
2008Call No.
E443 .G55 2008ISBN
9780521703987LCCN
2007017918Location
Category
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023Moved By
Julius DarganDate
July 11, 2017General Notes
Note
Notes: By Thavolia Glymph.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-263) and index.Created By
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April 5, 2023