The plantation mistress : woman's world in the old South / Catherine Clinton.
This study of the much-mythologized Southern belle offers a 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, the author sets before us the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[1982]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: |
Main Collection
| Call Number: |
HQ806 .C53 |
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| Status: | Available Request this item |