booktheque

The plantation mistress

Catherine Clinton · 1984

Where to buy

Amazon’s price changes daily, so the most accurate place to see it is there, at the moment you buy.

View on Amazon

About the book

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 daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master.

Book details

Year
1984
Language
English
Publisher
Pantheon
Editions
1
Pages
352
ISBN
9780394722535

Data source: Wikidata

More by Catherine Clinton

Mrs. Lincoln
Catherine Clinton · 2009
Battle scars
Catherine Clinton · 2006
Harriet Tubman
Catherine Clinton · 2005
Fanny Kemble's civil wars
Catherine Clinton · 2001
The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century
Catherine Clinton · 2000
The Other Civil War
Catherine Clinton · 1999
Taking Off the White Gloves
Catherine Clinton · 1998
I, Too, Sing America
Catherine Clinton · 1998
Tara Revisited
Catherine Clinton · 1997
Divided houses
Catherine Clinton · 1992