Status
Available
Publication
Pantheon (1984), Edition: 1st, 331 pages
Description
This study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers a 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, the author sets before us the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master.
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LibraryThing member susan3
An interesting view of the strength of women in the south.
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1982
Physical description
331 p.; 5.13 inches
ISBN
0394722531 / 9780394722535