Thavolia Glymph
Teoksen Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household tekijä
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This book is broken into three sections. Southern Women contains chapters on slaveholding white women who've had to flee their homes; on poor white women (often encroached upon by those refugees); and enslaved women. Northern women discusses both those who spent the war in the north, and also those who went south -- supposedly to help the enslaved and recently freed, but depicting the traps of white supremacy they continued to fall into. Finally, in the Hard Hand of War, we see the refugees who fell under the protection of the Union Army -- both the slaveholding women insisting on retaining whatever scraps of their former status they could, and Black women trying to expand freedom for themselves, their families, and their people.
This answered so many questions that I had, and opened my eyes to so much that had never occurred to me. I am so grateful to have access to Glymph's scholarship.… (lisätietoja)