Masterful Women

Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves "masters" not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. According to historians, the privilege of mastery was reserved for white males. But slaveholding widows enjoyed material, legal, and cultural resources to which most southerners could only aspire.

שנה

2006

שפה

English

הוצאה

The University of North Carolina Press

מהדורות

3

עמודים

288

ISBN

9780807828595

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata