Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household
Entry/Object ID
2017.004.4
Description
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 Library
Acquisition
Accession
2017.004
Source or Donor
Archives/Library Purchases (2017)
Acquisition Method
Purchased
Credit Line
Restricted Book/Archives Acquisition Fund Purchase
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Book
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Other Documents
Nomenclature Class
Documentary Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Search 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 century
Book Details
Author
Glymph, Thavolia, 1951-
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Place Published
Location
Cambridge (UK)
Date Published
2008
Call No.
E443 .G55 2008
ISBN
9780521703987
LCCN
2007017918
Location
Location
Building
Missroon Library
Category
Permanent
Date
February 7, 2023
Location
Building
Checked Out
Moved By
Julius Dargan
Date
July 11, 2017
General Notes
Note
Notes: By Thavolia Glymph.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-263) and index.
