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A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy. Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South's slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.Product Identifiers
PublisherTantor Media, Incorporated
ISBN-101541431022
ISBN-139781541431027
eBay Product ID (ePID)6038632731
Product Key Features
Book TitleThey Were Her Property : White Women As Slave Owners in the American South
TopicSlavery, Women, United States / 19th Century
Publication Year2019
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistory, Social Science
AuthorStephanie E. Jones-Rogers
Dimensions
Item Height0.6in
Item Length7.4in
Item Width5.3in
Item Weight3.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Number of Volumes1 Vol.
Dewey Decimal306.3620975
Edition DescriptionUnabridged Edition
Narrated byJohnson, Allyson