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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
By Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.
- ISBN
- 9780300218664 9780300245103
- Publisher
- Yale Univ.
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Reviewed on March 1, 2019 | Visions of Slavery
Jones-Rogers (history, Univ. of California, Berkeley) expands her award-winning dissertation to correct the historical record on white women's culpability in the perpetuation of the slave system. Using primary resources including newspapers and archives as well as many secondary sources, Jones-Rogers meticulously portrays how these women strived to maintain and control what they saw as their economic stability. Many white women were gifted or purch...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
