Neither Lady Nor Slave

Author : Susanna Delfino,Michele Gillespie
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807861301

Get Book

Neither Lady nor Slave by Susanna Delfino,Michele Gillespie Pdf

Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of the working woman. Neither Lady nor Slave pushes southern history beyond the plantation to examine the lives and labors of ordinary southern women--white, free black, and Indian. Contributors to this volume illuminate women's involvement in the southern market economy in all its diversity. Thirteen essays explore the working lives of a wide range of women--nuns and prostitutes, iron workers and basket weavers, teachers and domestic servants--in urban and rural settings across the antebellum South. By highlighting contrasts between paid and unpaid, officially acknowledged and "invisible" work within the context of cultural attitudes regarding women's proper place in society, the book sheds new light on the ambiguities that marked relations between race, class, and gender in the modernizing South. The contributors are E. Susan Barber, Bess Beatty, Emily Bingham, James Taylor Carson, Emily Clark, Stephanie Cole, Susanna Delfino, Michele Gillespie, Sarah Hill, Barbara J. Howe, Timothy J. Lockley, Stephanie McCurry, Diane Batts Morrow, and Penny L. Richards.

Author : Susanna Delfino,Michele Gillespie,Louis M. Kyriakoudes
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826272430

Get Book

Southern Society and Its Transformations, 1790-1860 by Susanna Delfino,Michele Gillespie,Louis M. Kyriakoudes Pdf

In Southern Society and Its Transformations, a new set of scholars challenge conventional perceptions of the antebellum South as an economically static region compared to the North. Showing that the pre-Civil War South was much more complex than once thought, the essays in this volume examine the economic lives and social realities of three overlooked but important groups of southerners: the working poor, non-slaveholding whites, and middling property holders such as small planters, professionals, and entrepreneurs. The nine essays that comprise Southern Society and Its Transformations explore new territory in the study of the slave-era South, conveying how modernization took shape across the region and exploring the social processes involved in its economic developments. The book is divided into four parts, each analyzing a different facet of white southern life. The first outlines the legal dimensions of race relations, exploring the effects of lynching and the significance of Georgia’s vagrancy laws. Part II presents the advent of the market economy and its effect on agriculture in the South, including the beginning of frontier capitalism. The third section details the rise of a professional middle class in the slave era and the conflicts provoked. The book’s last section deals with the financial aspects of the transformation in the South, including the credit and debt relationships at play and the presence of corporate entrepreneurship. Between the dawn of the nation and the Civil War, constant change was afoot in the American South. Scholarship has only begun to explore these progressions in the past few decades and has given too little consideration to the economic developments with respect to the working-class experience. These essays show that a new generation of scholars is asking fresh questions about the social aspects of the South’s economic transformation. Southern Society and Its Transformations is a complex look at how whole groups of traditionally ignored white southerners in the slave era embraced modernizing economic ideas and actions while accepting a place in their race-based world. This volume will be of interest to students of Southern and U.S. economic and social history.

Author : Jeff Forret
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807131459

Get Book

Race Relations at the Margins by Jeff Forret Pdf

Covering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a subject previously unexplored and certainly under-reported. Forret’s findings challenge historians’ long-held assumption that mutual violence and animosity characterized the two groups’ interactions; he reveals that while poor whites and slaves sometimes experienced bouts of hostility, often they worked or played in harmony and camaraderie. Race Relations at the Margins is remarkable for its focus on lower-class whites and their dealings with slaves outside the purview of the master. Race and class, Forret demonstrates, intersected in unique ways for those at the margins of southern society, challenging the belief that race created a social cohesion among whites regardless of economic status. As Forret makes apparent, colonial-era flexibility in race relations never entirely disappeared despite the institutionalization of slavery and the growing rigidity of color lines. His book offers a complex and nuanced picture of the shadowy world of slave–poor white interactions, demanding a refined understanding and new appreciation of the range of interracial associations in the Old South.

Author : Susanna Delfino
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813154886

Get Book

Bonds of Womanhood by Susanna Delfino Pdf

Class, race, and gender collide in this insightful examination of the life of Susanna (Susan) Preston Shelby Grigsby (1830–1891)—a white plantation mistress and slaveholder who struggled to participate in the economic modernization of antebellum Kentucky. Drawing on Grigsby's correspondence, author Susanna Delfino uses Grigsby's story to explore the complex cultural and social issues at play in the state's economy before, during, and after the Civil War. Delfino demonstrates that Grigsby engaged in certain kinds of antislavery activism, such as hiring white servants as a way of conveying her support for free labor and avoiding ever selling a slave. Despite her beliefs, however, Grigsby failed to hold to her moral compass when faced with her husband's patriarchal authority or when she experienced serious economic trouble. This compelling study not only illuminates how white women participated in the South's nineteenth-century economy, but also offers new perspectives on their complicity in slavery.

Author : Robert M. West,Jesse Graves
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476641348

Get Book

Robert Morgan by Robert M. West,Jesse Graves Pdf

For more than fifty years Robert Morgan has brought to life the landscape, history and culture of the Southern Appalachia of his youth. In 30 acclaimed volumes, including poetry, short story collections, novels and nonfiction prose, he has celebrated an often marginalized region. His many honors include four NEA Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as television appearances (The Best American Poetry: New Stories from the South, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards). This first book on Morgan collects appreciations and analyses by some of his most dedicated readers, including fellow poets, authors, critics and scholars. An unpublished interview with him is included, along with an essay by him on the importance of sense of place, and a bibliography of publications by and about him.

Author : Jonathan Daniel Wells
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0807855537

Get Book

The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861 by Jonathan Daniel Wells Pdf

With a fresh take on social dynamics in the antebellum South, Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until after the Civil War. He argues that, in fact, the region h

Author : Ted Ownby,Becca Walton
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496829542

Get Book

Clothing and Fashion in Southern History by Ted Ownby,Becca Walton Pdf

Contributions by Grace Elizabeth Hale, Katie Knowles, Ted Ownby, Jonathan Prude, William Sturkey, Susannah Walker, Becca Walton, and Sarah Jones Weicksel Fashion studies have long centered on the art and preservation of finely rendered garments of the upper class, and archival resources used in the study of southern history have gaps and silences. Yet, little study has been given to the approach of clothing as something made, worn, and intimately experienced by enslaved people, incarcerated people, and the poor and working class, and by subcultures perceived as transgressive. The essays in the volume, using clothing as a point of departure, encourage readers to imagine the South’s centuries-long engagement with a global economy through garments, with cotton harvested by enslaved or poorly paid workers, milled in distant factories, designed with influence from cosmopolitan tastemakers, and sold back in the South, often by immigrant merchants. Contributors explore such topics as how free and enslaved women with few or no legal rights claimed to own clothing in the mid-1800s, how white women in the Confederacy claimed the making of clothing as a form of patriotism, how imprisoned men and women made and imagined their clothing, and clothing cooperatives in civil rights–era Mississippi. An introduction by editors Ted Ownby and Becca Walton asks how best to begin studying clothing and fashion in southern history, and an afterword by Jonathan Prude asks how best to conclude.

Author : Catherine Hezser
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191515668

Get Book

Jewish Slavery in Antiquity by Catherine Hezser Pdf

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish attitudes towards slavery in Hellenistic and Roman times. Against the traditional opinion that after the Babylonian Exile Jews refrained from employing slaves, Catherine Hezser shows that slavery remained a significant phenomenon of ancient Jewish everyday life and generated a discourse which resembled Graeco-Roman and early Christian views while at the same time preserving specifically Jewish nuances. Hezser examines the impact of domestic slavery on the ancient Jewish household and on family relationships. She discusses the perceived advantages of slaves over other types of labor and evaluates their role within the ancient Jewish economy. The ancient Jewish experience of slavery seems to have been so pervasive that slave images also entered theological discourse. Like their Graeco-Roman and Christian counterparts, ancient Jewish intellectuals did not advocate the abolition of slavery, but they used the biblical tradition and their own judgements to ameliorate the status quo.

Author : Shaye J. D. Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520920491

Get Book

Why Aren't Jewish Women Circumcised? by Shaye J. D. Cohen Pdf

Why aren't Jewish women circumcised? This improbable question, first advanced by anti-Jewish Christian polemicists, is the point of departure for this wide-ranging exploration of gender and Jewishness in Jewish thought. With a lively command of a wide range of Jewish sources—from the Bible and the Talmud to the legal and philosophical writings of the Middle Ages to Enlightenment thinkers and modern scholars—Shaye J. D. Cohen considers the varied responses to this provocative question and in the process provides the fullest cultural history of Jewish circumcision available.

Author : Gaius,Thomas Lambert Mears
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Institutiones
ISBN : HARVARD:32044097726277

Get Book

The Institutes of Gaius and Justinian, the Twelve Tables, and the CXVIIIth and CXXVIIth Novels by Gaius,Thomas Lambert Mears Pdf

Author : Florida Historical Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Florida
ISBN : UVA:X030054233

Get Book

The Florida Historical Quarterly by Florida Historical Society Pdf

Author : Hellen Sandra Byung-Ju Lee-Keller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American fiction
ISBN : UCSD:31822009466038

Get Book

Working Matters by Hellen Sandra Byung-Ju Lee-Keller Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : North Carolina
ISBN : UCSD:31822040940470

Get Book

The North Carolina Historical Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807864227

Get Book

Within the Plantation Household by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Pdf

Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries, letters, memoirs, and oral histories, the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women, enslaved and free, differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand antebellum southern women by applying models derived from New England sources.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121638089

Get Book

International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature Chiefly in the Fields of Arts and Humanities and the Social Sciences by Anonim Pdf