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

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

List 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

Product details

• Authors: R. Fraser, Rebecca Fraser, Rebecca J. Fraser, Fraser Rebecca
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.11.2012
• EAN: 9780230300705
• ISBN: 978-0-230-30070-5
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Genders and Sexualities in History; Genders and Sexualities in His; Genders and Sexualities in History; Genders and Sexualities in His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, History, Social History, Social & cultural history, History of the Americas, History, Modern, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, America—History, United States—History, US History