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Title The big house after slavery [electronic resource] : Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment / Amy Feely Morsman.

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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xii, 276 p. : ill.
Series	Nation divided
	Nation divided.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	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.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	0813930030 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9780813930039
	0813930081 (electronic bk.)
	9780813930084 (electronic bk.)