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The plantation mistress by Catherine Clinton · Booklabria

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The plantation mistress

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First published: 1980
Language: English
Editions: 4

Synopsis

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.

Subjects: History
Social life and customs
Women
Sex customs
Mistresses
Plantation life
Set in: Southern States
Time: 1775-1865

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