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Author Wood, Kirsten E.

Title Masterful women : slaveholding widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War / Kirsten E. Wood.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2004]
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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  975.03 W876M    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Gender and American culture
Gender & American culture.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-266) and index.
Contents The management of Negroes -- The strongest ties that bind poor mortals -- A very public road -- The leading men and women -- Worried in body and vexed in heart -- What will become of us!
Local Subject Enslavers -- Southern States -- History.
Subject Widows -- Southern States -- Economic conditions.
Widows -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
Plantation life -- Southern States -- History.
Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865.
Sex role -- Southern States -- History.
Slavery -- Southern States -- History.
Southern States -- Race relations.
Southern States -- Social conditions.
Slaveholders -- Southern States -- History.
Widowhood -- Southern States -- History.
ISBN 0807828599 cloth alkaline paper
0807855286 paperback alkaline paper
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