The big house after slavery : Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment /

The big house after slavery : Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Morsman, Amy Feely, 1972-
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Series:	Nation divided.
Subjects:	1800-1950 Plantation life > Virginia > History > 19th century. Plantation owners > Virginia > History > 19th century. Families > Virginia > History > 19th century. Social change > Virginia > History > 19th century. Man-woman relationships > Virginia > History > 19th century. Sex role > Virginia > History > 19th century. Marriage > Virginia > History > 19th century. Virginia > Social life and customs > 19th century. Virginia > Economic conditions > 19th century. Virginia > Politics and government > 1865-1950. History
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Table of Contents:

"By hard labour and close economy" : Virginia planters go to work
Keeping up appearances : a crisis of status in Virginia's postwar plantation households
"For our mutual protection and advancement" : planter families in Virginia's postbellum voluntary organizations
Baring Virginia's bosom for political gain : politicians, manhood, and debt
Abandoning the homestead : how the next generation embraced a new South.