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Bonds of womanhood : slavery and the decline of a Kentucky plantation /

"Class, race, and gender collide in this insightful examination of the life of Susanna (Susan) Preston Shelby Grigsby (1830-1890)-a white plantation mistress and slaveholder who struggled to participate in the economic modernization of antebellum Kentucky. Drawing on Grigsby's corresponden...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Delfino, Susanna, 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2021]
Subjects:
Grigsby, Susan Preston Shelby, > 1830-1891 > Ethics.
Women, White > Kentucky > 19th century > Biography.
Social change > Kentucky > 19th century.
Women, White > Kentucky > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women, White > Kentucky > Economic conditions > 19th century.
African American women > Kentucky > Social conditions > 19th century.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Kentucky > 19th century.
Slavery > Social aspects > Kentucky > 19th century.
Grigsby, Susan Preston Shelby, > 1830-1891.
African American women > Social conditions.
Ethics.
Slavery > Economic aspects.
Slavery > Social aspects.
Social change.
Women, White.
Kentucky.
1800-1899
Biographies.

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