Bonds of womanhood : slavery and the decline of a Kentucky plantation /

Bonds of womanhood : slavery and the decline of a Kentucky plantation /

"Class, race, and gender collide in this insightful examination of the life of Susanna (Susan) Preston Shelby Grigsby (1830-1890)-a white plantation mistress and slaveholder who struggled to participate in the economic modernization of antebellum Kentucky. Drawing on Grigsby's corresponden...

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Main Author: Delfino, Susanna, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [2021]
Subjects:
Grigsby, Susan Preston Shelby, > 1830-1891 > Ethics.
1800-1899
Slavery > Social aspects > Kentucky > 19th century.
Slavery > Economic aspects > Kentucky > 19th century.
African American women > Kentucky > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women, White > Kentucky > Economic conditions > 19th century.
Women, White > Kentucky > Social conditions > 19th century.
Social change > Kentucky > 19th century.
Women, White > Kentucky > 19th century > Biography.
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