The Big House After Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment
(Part of the A Nation Divided: New Studies in Civil War History Series and A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era Series)
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The Big House after Slavery examines the economic, social, and political challenges that Virginia planter families faced following Confederate defeat and emancipation. Amy Feely Morsman addresses how men and women of the planter class responded to postwar problems and how their adaptations to life without slavery altered their marital relationships and their conceptions of gender roles. Unable to afford many servants in the new free labor...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0813930030
ISBN13:9780813930039
Release Date:October 2010
Publisher:University of Virginia Press
Length:296 Pages
Weight:1.45 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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