Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South
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This is the first study of 19th-century Appalachian women. Wilma A. Dunaway moves beyond the black-white dichotomy and the preoccupation with affluent females that handicap antebellum women's histories. By comparing white, American Indian, free black, and enslaved females, she argues that the nature of a woman's work was determined by her race, ethnicity, and/or class positions. Concomitantly, the degree to which laws shielded her family from disruption...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0521886198
ISBN13:9780521886192
Release Date:March 2008
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:320 Pages
Weight:1.30 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.5" x 9.2"
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