Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows From the American Revolution Through the Civil War

Authors

Joshua D. Rothman

ISBN

807838599

Price

$49.95

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Abstract

Prim and property

Widows in control of land and slaves

In the slave South, white masculinity entailed mastery, with its attendant privileges of patriarchal household dominance of dependent and submissive women and slaves, and its rights of democratic participation in the polit....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.7.2.21

Recommended Citation

Rothman, Joshua D. (2005) "Masterful Women: Slaveholding Widows From the American Revolution Through the Civil War," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 7 : Iss. 2 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.7.2.21
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol7/iss2/21