Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script she had been raised with in the North.

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REBECCA FRASER carried out her doctoral work at the University of Warwick, UK. She is currently a lecturer of American History and Culture in the School of American Studies at the University of East Anglia.

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Book Title: Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America
Book Subtitle: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress
Authors: Rebecca J. Fraser
Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291851
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-30070-5Published: 16 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-33650-0Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-29185-1Published: 16 November 2012
Series ISSN: 2730-9479
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9487
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 218
Topics: US History, Modern History, Social History, History of the Americas

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Reading Letters, Telling Stories and Writing History

“Everything Here is So Different”: Changing Cultural Landscapes

An Identity in Transit: From “True Woman” to “Southern Lady”

Familial Relations: North and South

Articulating a Southern Self: Georgia, Sunnyside and the Confederacy

Reconstructing Southern Womanhood

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