Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress
Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script she had been raised with in the North.
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Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress
Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script she had been raised with in the North.
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Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress

Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress

by Rebecca Fraser
Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress

Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress

by Rebecca Fraser

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Overview

Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script she had been raised with in the North.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137291851
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 11/16/2012
Series: Genders and Sexualities in History
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 218
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

REBECCA FRASER carried out her doctoral work at the University of Warwick, UK. She is currently a lecturer of American History and Culture in the School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia.

Table of Contents

List of Images Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Reading Letters, Telling Stories, and Writing History 'Everything Is So Different Here': Changing Cultural Landscapes An Identity in Transit: From 'True Woman' to 'Southern Lady' Familial Relations: North and South Articulating a Southern Self: Georgia, Sunnyside and the Confederacy Reconstructing Southern Womanhood Postscript Notes Bibliography
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