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Masterful women : slaveholding widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wood, Kirsten E.
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
Series:Gender & American culture.
Subjects:
Slaveholders > Southern States > History.
Widows > Southern States > Social conditions.
Widows > Southern States > Economic conditions.
Slavery > Southern States > History.
Widowhood > Southern States > History.
Sex role > Southern States > History.
Plantation life > Southern States > History.
Southern States > History > 1775-1865.
Southern States > Social conditions.
Southern States > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The management of Negroes
  • The strongest ties that bind poor mortals
  • A very public road
  • The leading men and women
  • Worried in body and vexed in heart
  • What will become of us!