[PDF.50yk] Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War (Gender and American Culture)

Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War (Gender and American Culture)

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 | #2239606 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2004-06-21 |  2004-06-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.32 x.76 x5.74l,.90 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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|| |Wood demonstrates that slaveholding widows enjoyed material, legal, and cultural resources to which most other southerners could only aspire. The ways in which they did and did not translate those resources into social, political, and economic power shed new l

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, slaveholding widows between the American Revolution and the Civil War developed their own version of mastery. Because their husbands' ...

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