The plantation mistress
Slaveholders
Southern states, social conditions
Patriarchy
Women, united states, history
Mistresses
Plantation life
Sex customs
Women
Social life and customs
History
This study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers a serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, the author sets before us the …
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