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

by Rebecca Fraser

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349336500
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2013
Series:	Genders and Sexualities in History
Edition description:	1st ed. 2013
Pages:	218
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

REBECCA FRASER carried out her doctoral work at the University of Warwick, UK. She is currently a lecturer of American History and Culture in the School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia.

Table of Contents

List of Images Series Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Reading Letters, Telling Stories, and Writing History 'Everything Is So Different Here': Changing Cultural Landscapes An Identity in Transit: From 'True Woman' to 'Southern Lady' Familial Relations: North and South Articulating a Southern Self: Georgia, Sunnyside and the Confederacy Reconstructing Southern Womanhood Postscript Notes Bibliography