This caused many young to middle age ladies to die way to young. The result of this isolation is a treasure trove of personal letters to husbands, mothers, sisters, and friends; this book is all the richer for the generous portions of these letters that pepper the pages. As Catherine Clinton states in this fascinating insight into plantation life, "the plantation mistress continues to be a prisoner of myth", as much bound and constrained by history as she was in life. The "Lady" knitted them along with other family women and slave women who worked in the "Big House". Shelves: american-history, american-civil-war As Catherine Clinton states in this fascinating insight into plantation life, "the plantation mistress continues to be a prisoner of myth", as much bound and constrained by history as she was in life. Februar 1984. I found it so far from the fiction, that books show, and movies describe, it was amazing. The plantation mistress was expected to turn a blind eye to whatever sexual exploits her husband – or any other white... Women were often deeply involved in the management of their husbands’ estates, much to belie the myth of the Old South. Wir verwenden Cookies und ähnliche Tools, um Ihr Einkaufserlebnis zu verbessern, um unsere Dienste anzubieten, um zu verstehen, wie die Kunden unsere Dienste nutzen, damit wir Verbesserungen vornehmen können, und um Werbung anzuzeigen, einschließlich interessenbezogener Werbung. Juli 2000, Catherine Clinton successfully parts the heavy drapes of Tara to reveal the truth behind the Scarlett myth created from the chimera of charming belles and courtly balls in the antebellum south. Clinton is at her best when she discusses the varying ways planter society created and enforced gender roles for white men and women. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions—the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. Raising families and managing plantations yet not bein. As Catherine Clinton states in this fascinating insight into plantation life, "the plantation mistress continues to be a prisoner of myth", as much bound and constrained by history as she was in life. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master. Finden Sie alle Bücher, Informationen zum Autor. It flows like a novel yet is so full of interesting facts that I know I do not remember everything that is important to help in understanding American women. Fortunately scholars like Thavolia Glymph have greatly contributed to the field by making clear that plantation mistresses were no less inclined to violence than planters. This book gives readers a glimpse of what a white woman's life was like as she was married to a slave owner and how this affected women in general. an der Kasse variieren. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions -- the slave plantation and the nineteenth-century family. The master of a plantation wanted his slaves to be dependent upon the mistress, but he also demanded that the mistress be dependent upon him. Wives found their husbands' liaisons disgraceful and sinful, but slave women didn't really count as human beings, let alone rivals. This book was written in 1982, and is well researched. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master. I had picked this book up at a thrift shop; it sounded interesting. This book was recommended by the docent of a Charleston plantation; by reading this book one learns that, contrary to being Scarlett O'Hara, the overwhelming, vast majority of Southern women wished to be Scarlett. I appreciated all the primary source quotes and references and how the author emphasized that this study focused only on the plantation mistresses - not on *all* Southern women. I think this book is wonderful because the pages are fresh and clean, the price is great, and I feel that the content is essential. Welcome back. Antebellum Southern Women generally "little freer than their slaves" - a contention supported through letter and diary entries. What were their lives like? Abhängig von der Lieferadresse kann die USt. (Pg. Plantation mistresses existed in the gender role that their husbands prescribed to them. I sure did! Foster, Thomas A. I enjoyed the section on the master of the plantation and the children that miraculously would appear that would be lighter skinned and noticeably similar to the master or his white children. Southern women have been portrayed by Hollywood of having an easy life. "The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Februar 2013, Libro entretenido q aporta conclusiones q sorprenden.lo recomiendo a cualquiera q vaya a viajar al viejo sur.lectura amena con apéndice estadístico, Rezension aus den Vereinigten Staaten vom 5. 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