books about: slaveholding

books about: slaveholding

books:

Slaveholding

Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War (Gender and American ...
Kirsten E. Wood

The University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves "masters" not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. According to many historians, the privilege of mastery was reserved for white males. But as many as one in ten slaveholders--sometimes more--was a widow, and as Kirsten E. Wood demonstrates, ...

Major Butler's Legacy: Five Generations of a Slaveholding Family
Malcolm Bell

University of Georgia Press, 1989

The Slaveholding Republic: An Account of the United States Government's Relations to Slavery

Don E. Fehrenbacher

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

Revising the Revisionists
This book comprehensively covers many subjects concerning race and American government--namely: the founder's intentions regarding slavery, the behavior of the federal government toward slavery up through the Civil War, the attitudes and behavior of Abraham Lincoln ...

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (The Fred W. Morrison Series ...

Drew Gilpin Faust

The University of North Carolina Press, 2004

Southern Elite White Women's World Turned Upside Down
Mothers of Invention is a book by Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust (historian), who was appointed President of Harvard University in February 2007. This book is an excellent adjunct to any college level class on the Civil War period. Faust researched the letters, diaries and ...

A Discussion on slaveholding. Three letters to a conservative
George D. (George Dodd) Armstrong

Cornell University Library, 1858

This volume is produced from digital images from the Cornell University Library Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection

We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (Gender and American Culture)
Elizabeth R. Varon

The University of North Carolina Press, 1998

Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputed the notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded from public life. With this book, Elizabeth ...

Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860
Michele Gillespie

University of Georgia Press, 2004

This is the first book-length study of free, white craftsmen and tradesmen in the pre-Civil War South. Michele Gillespie details these workers' worlds and tells how they struggled against declining social and economic opportunities while skilled slaves increasingly took up the mechanical, building, clothing, and decorative arts trades.