[PDF.09hu] The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South

The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South

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 | #1310180 in Books |  1982-12 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | File type: PDF | 331 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| The Southern Belle Worked to the Bone|By Alexa Porter|Fascinating reading if you like history. True history! This doesn't sugar coat anything, "tells it like it is". Apparently the wealthy ladies in the South didn't spend a lot of time on the veranda sipping lemonade as we thought. They worked their little derrieres off, being responsible, for instance, for personally sewin| |"The Plantation Mistress challenges and reinterprets a host of issues related to the Old South. The result is a book that forces us to rethink some of our basic assumptions about two peculiar institutions—the slave plantation and the nineteenth-ce

This pioneering study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers the first serious look at the lives of white women and their harsh and restricted place in the slave society before the Civil War. Drawing on the diaries, letters, and memoirs of hundreds of planter wives and daughters, Clinton sets before us in vivid detail the daily life of the plantation mistress and her ambiguous intermediary position in the hierarchy between slave and master.

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You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South   |  Catherine Clinton. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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