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Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America

From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress

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  1. Rebecca J. Fraser
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Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction: Reading Letters, Telling Stories and Writing History

    • Rebecca J. Fraser
    Pages 1-14

  3. “Everything Here is So Different”: Changing Cultural Landscapes

    • Rebecca J. Fraser
    Pages 15-40

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

    • Rebecca J. Fraser
    Pages 41-70

  5. Familial Relations: North and South

    • Rebecca J. Fraser
    Pages 71-102

  6. Articulating a Southern Self: Georgia, Sunnyside and the Confederacy

    • Rebecca J. Fraser
    Pages 103-133

  7. Reconstructing Southern Womanhood

    • Rebecca J. Fraser
    Pages 134-159

  8. Postscript

    • Rebecca J. Fraser
    Pages 160-166

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 167-218
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About this book

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.

About the author

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.

Bibliographic Information

  • 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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