Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household by Thavolia Glymph

Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household

Thavolia Glymph

279 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective slow-paced

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This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than po...

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tense 25%

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