Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress

Rebecca Fraser

doi:10.1057/9781137291851

Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress

Rebecca Fraser

American Studies

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Abstract

Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script she had been raised with in the North.

Original language	English
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages	218
ISBN (Print)	978-0-230-30070-5, 978-1-349-33650-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291851
Publication status	Published - Nov 2012

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