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Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America Rebecca Fraser

Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America By Rebecca Fraser

Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America by Rebecca Fraser

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Summary

Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script she had been raised with in the North.

Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America Summary

Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress by Rebecca Fraser

Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script she had been raised with in the North.

About Rebecca Fraser

REBECCA FRASER carried out her doctoral work at the University of Warwick, UK. She is currently a lecturer of American History and Culture in the School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia.

Table of Contents

List of Images Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Reading Letters, Telling Stories, and Writing History 'Everything Is So Different Here': Changing Cultural Landscapes An Identity in Transit: From 'True Woman' to 'Southern Lady' Familial Relations: North and South Articulating a Southern Self: Georgia, Sunnyside and the Confederacy Reconstructing Southern Womanhood Postscript Notes Bibliography

Additional information

NLS9781349336500
9781349336500
1349336505
Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress by Rebecca Fraser
Rebecca Fraser
Genders and Sexualities in History
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2013-01-01
218
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