They were her property : white women as slave owners in the American South
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Wadsworth Library - Geneseo - Adult Nonfiction
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xx, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-273) and index.
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"Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South's slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America"--,Provided by publisher.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Jones-Rogers, S. E. (2019). They were her property: white women as slave owners in the American South . Yale University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.. 2019. They Were Her Property: White Women As Slave Owners in the American South. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.. They Were Her Property: White Women As Slave Owners in the American South New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.. They Were Her Property: White Women As Slave Owners in the American South Yale University Press, 2019.

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