The Big House After Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment (A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era) - Hardcover

Morsman, Amy Feely

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ISBN 10: 0813930030 ISBN 13: 9780813930039

Verlag: University of Virginia Press, 2010

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The Big House after Slavery is revelatory about changes in late-nineteenth-century gender ideals. Morsman's arguments are nuanced and convincing and she significantly advances our knowledge about how the former planters adapted to the social and agricultural changes of the New South. --Jane Turner Censer, George Mason University, author of The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895

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The Big House after Slavery examines the economic, social, and political challenges that Virginia planter families faced following Confederate defeat and emancipation. Amy Feely Morsman addresses how men and women of the planter class responded to postwar problems and how their adaptations to life without slavery altered their marital relationships and their conceptions of gender roles. Using newspapers, periodicals, organisation records, and numerous letters from Virginia plantation families, Morsman captures how these frustrated elites made sense of embarrassing postwar changes, in the private but also in the public spheres they inhabited. Morsman suggests that the planters' adaptations may have been carried forward by their adult children away from the crumbling plantations and into the urban households of the New South.

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• Verlag: University of Virginia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0813930030
• ISBN 13: 9780813930039
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 296