The big house after slavery Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment /

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Autor Principal: Morsman, Amy Feely, 1972-
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Series:Nation divided.
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Table of Contents:
  • "By hard labour and close economy" : Virginia planters go to work
  • Keeping up appearances : a crisis of status in Virginia's postwar plantation households
  • "For our mutual protection and advancement" : planter families in Virginia's postbellum voluntary organizations
  • Baring Virginia's bosom for political gain : politicians, manhood, and debt
  • Abandoning the homestead : how the next generation embraced a new South.