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Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America - From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress (Hardcover)
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Gender, Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America - From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress (Hardcover)
Series: Genders and Sexualities in History
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Born to a privileged middle-class family in 1830s New York State,
Sarah Hicks' decision to marry Benjamin Williams, a physician and
slaveholder from Greene County, North Carolina, in 1853, was met
with slight amazement by her parents, siblings and friends, not
least her brother-in-law, James Monroe Brown, a committed
anti-slavery campaigner from Ohio. This book traces Sarah's journey
as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding
plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled
the everyday realities of plantation mistress to the gender script
which she had been raised with in the North. She also faced
familial divisions and disharmony with her northern kin and new
southern in-laws, and the recognition that her whiteness and class
accorded her special privileges in the context of mid-nineteenth
century America.
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