Bobbie L. (nascargal) reviewed on 11/25/2006 + 352 more book reviews

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This is a very interesting and enlightening book about women on plantations in the Old South. From the cover...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 hieracrchy between slave and master.

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