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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780394722535
This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle
offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their
harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil
War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of
planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail
the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous
intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and
master.
”The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of
issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces
us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar
institutions — the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century
family. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a
result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and
women’s place in it.
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