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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave†’owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave

Publisher

Yale University Press

Publication date

Jan 07, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

320

ISBN

9780300251838