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Highly recommended. Glymph has provided a new canvas for classic questions of enslavement, emancipation, and domestic spaces. Glymph's prose is incisively written and framed within a rich historiographical context. This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery, and Glymph challenges previous depictions of mistresses as "friends" and "allies" of slaves.
Thavolia Glymph Ph. She has co-edited two volumes of the award-winning Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation series and published scholarly articles in five book collections.
Glymph's far-ranging experience as a scholar and educator extends to various teaching appointments and museum projects. Her current work focuses on a comparative study of plantation households in Brazil and the U. Or enter your phone number, customer service of fado Password must be at least 6 characters , is not allowed longer than 30 characters, including numbers and letters. Feedback News Request a quote. Customer support Customer consultant Shopping guide. Check order Account Login Register.
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Mac Accessories Games. My eyes practically bugged out of my head when reading of white women teaching black women to do chores that supposedly white women were too weak to do…. That is the sort of illogical situation that only someone entirely committed to a belief system, no matter how wrong, will be able to come to terms with. Similarly, the former mistresses predicted the imminent downfall of their former house slaves only to find themselves hired by these same freedwomen to sew fine dresses for them with the money they earned by working the plantation.
Yet, the former mistresses persisted in believing in the racial inferiority of the freedwomen. Perhaps the most mind-boggling to me was the story of one former mistress who wound up teaching at a freed black school, yet even though she was with these children daily, she still believed in white supremacy. Personally, it seems to me that the white men were so constantly judgmental of the white women that they reacted by taking it out on those society deemed inferior to them. If black free women rose to their same status, then who would they take their frustrations out on?
I feel that I am repeating myself a bit with this project, but the books repeatedly demonstrate how inequality on any level acts as a poison to the whole society.
I hope that is something that we modern readers will bare in mind in our own daily lives. Buy It. I think the repetition is kind of one of the best parts of the project for me.
Highlights how you have to really TRY to maintain an ignorance of the truth, you know? Because it is there in so many fantastic books. Oh absolutely the repetition is interesting and important! I think that in writing up my review I was feeling a bit paranoid that maybe I missed something in the book?
I was nodding my head as I read your comment on the effort it takes to maintain a racist,unequal society. In fact, any system of oppression. The sad thing the ones doing the most work, in this case in slavery, were white women and poor white people, who were themselves oppressed.
Readers also enjoyed. Description The plantation household was, first and foremost, a site of production. Add to want list. What's much more appealing is the later chapters when the slave women have been freed, and now perform some of the same service Historian Thavolia Glymph disabuses us of all of those stereotypes of the quiet, demure plantation mistress of the antebellum and Civil war era. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
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