عنوان

They were her property :

(Number (ISBN

0300218664

(Number (ISBN

0300251831

(Number (ISBN

9780300218664

(Number (ISBN

9780300251838

Title Proper

They were her property :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

white women as slave owners in the American South /

First Statement of Responsibility

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Yale University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2019]

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2019

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xx, 296 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-273) and index.

Text of Note

"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 market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America"--

Parallel Title

White women as slave owners in the American South

African Americans-- Southern States-- Social conditions-- History-- 19th century.

Slaveholders-- Southern States-- History.

Slavery-- Economic aspects-- Southern States.

Slavery-- Southern States-- History.

Slaves-- Emancipation-- Southern States.

Women, White-- Southern States-- Social conditions-- 19th century.

Sklavenhalter

Sklaverei

Slaveholders.

Slavery.

Social conditions.

Weibliche Weiße

Southern States.

USA, Südstaaten

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.

Date of Transaction

20200822100629.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

rda

Electronic name

[Book]

Y