The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South
Entry/Object ID
2010.002.092
Description
Looks at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Details the daily lives of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master.
xix, 331 p. ; 25 cm. (softcover)
Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation Library
Acquisition
Accession
2010.002.
Source or Donor
New Library Catalog Records (2010)
Acquisition Method
Found in Collection
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 owners' spouses--Southern States, Women plantation owners--Southern States, Slaveholders--Southern States, Patriarchy--Southern States, Southern States--Social life and customs--1775-1865, Plantation life--Southern States
Book Details
Author
Clinton, Catherine, 1952-
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Place Published
Location
New York, NY
Date Published
1229
Call No.
HQ1438 .A13 C58 1982
ISBN
0394516869
LCCN
82003549
Notes
Date: 1982
Location
Location
Building
Missroon Library
Category
Permanent
Date
February 7, 2023
Location
Building
Library
Category
Permanent
General Notes
Note
Notes: By Catherine Clinton.
Includes bibliographical references ([295]-323) and index.