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Author

Wood, Kirsten E.

Title Masterful women : slaveholding widows from the American Revolution through the Civil War / Kirsten E. Wood.

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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	975.03 W85m 2004	---	Available

Description	xiii, 281 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series	Gender & American culture
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-266) and index.
Contents	The management of Negroes -- The strongest ties that bind poor mortals -- A very public road -- The leading men and women -- Worried in body and vexed in heart -- What will become of us!
Subject	Slaveholders -- Southern States -- History.
	Widows -- Southern States -- Social conditions.
	Widows -- Southern States -- Economic conditions.
	Slavery -- Southern States -- History.
	Widowhood -- Southern States -- History.
	Sex role -- Southern States -- History.
	Plantation life -- Southern States -- History.
	Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865.
	Southern States -- Social conditions.
	Southern States -- Race relations.
ISBN	0807828599 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0807855286 (pbk. : alk. paper)