They were her property : white women as slave owners in the American South /
"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 economi...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Mistresses of the Market
- Mistresses in the Making
- "I Belong to de Mistis"
- "Missus Done Her Own Bossing"
- "She Thought She Could Find a Better Market"
- "Wet Nurse for Sale or Hire"
- "That 'Oman Took Delight in Sellin' Slaves"
- "Her Slaves Have Been Liberated and Lost to Her"
- "A Most Unprecedented Robbery"
- Epilogue: Lost Kindred, Lost Cause.