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Out of the House of Bondage - The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Paperback)
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Out of the House of Bondage - The Transformation of the Plantation Household (Paperback)
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The plantation household was, first and foremost, a site of
production. This fundamental fact has generally been overshadowed
by popular and scholarly images of the plantation household as the
source of slavery's redeeming qualities, where 'gentle' mistresses
ministered to 'loyal' slaves. This book recounts a very different
story. The very notion of a private sphere, as divorced from the
immoral excesses of chattel slavery as from the amoral logic of
market laws, functioned to conceal from public scrutiny the
day-to-day struggles between enslaved women and their mistresses,
subsumed within a logic of patriarchy. One of emancipation's unsung
consequences was precisely the exposure to public view of the
unbridgeable social distance between the women on whose labor the
plantation household relied and the women who employed them. This
is a story of race and gender, nation and citizenship, freedom and
bondage in the nineteenth century South; a big abstract story that
is composed of equally big personal stories.
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