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Love, Wages, Slavery - The Literature of Servitude in the United States (Paperback)
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Love, Wages, Slavery - The Literature of Servitude in the United States (Paperback)
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As slavery tore at the nation in the nineteenth century, the role
of servants and slaves within the family became a heated topic, and
publishers produced a steady stream of literature instructing
households how to hire, treat, and discipline servants. In this
book, Barbara Ryan surveys an expansive collection of these
published materials from both before and after Emancipation to
chart shifts in thinking about what made a good servant and how
servants felt about serving non-kin, as well as changing ideas
about gender, free and unfree labor, status, race, domesticity, and
family life. Paying particular attention to women servants, Ryan
traces the "servant problem" as it was represented in magazines
like the Atlantic Monthly, Godey's Lady's Book, and Harper's Bazar.
Her wide-ranging probe also culls commentary from advice
literature, letters and diaries, pro- and anti-slavery propaganda,
sentimental fiction, and memoirs of communitarian reform to reveal
the fundamental uncertainty about what it meant for some servants
to be "free" while others remained fettered to their posts.
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