The Plantation Mistress by Catherine Clinton

The Plantation Mistress by Catherine Clinton

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. 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.

"The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. 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. It approaches a familiar subject from a new angle, and as a result, permanently alters our understanding of the Old South and women's place in it.

AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO, CATHERINE CLINTON is the Denman Professor of American History. In her more than thirty years of teaching, she has served on the faculties of the University of Benghazi, Harvard University, and the Citadel (South Carolina's Military Academy). She has written and edited over two dozen books, including The Plantation Mistress, Harriet Tubman: The Path to Liberation, and Mrs. Civil War Tales (Georgia) and Lincoln: A Life.

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ISBN 13	9780394722535
ISBN 10	0394722531
Title	The Plantation Mistress
Author	Catherine Clinton
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1984-02-12
Number of pages	352
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