They were her property: white women as slave owners in the American South

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Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.

Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.

Express Library Fayetteville St.
Leesville Community
Oberlin Regional

Adult Non-Fiction

Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Eva H. Perry Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Express - Fayetteville St. - Adult Non-Fiction
Leesville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
Middlecreek Community - Adult Non-Fiction
Oberlin Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
Southeast Regional - Adult Non-Fiction

"Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South's slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America"--

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9780300218664
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2025-07-05T09:12:41.332Z

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Non Fiction

Non Fiction

975 JONES

Wake County Public Libraries

Cary Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
Express Library Fayetteville St.
Leesville Community
Middle Creek Community
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional

9780300218664

2019

Tantor Media, Inc
Yale University Press

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Slaveholders -- Southern States -- History
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 18th century
Slavery -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
Southern States -- Social conditions

They were her property : white women as slave owners in the American South

They Were Her Property White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
They were her property : white women as slave owners in the American South / Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

They were her property

white women as slave owners in the American South

History
Nonfiction
Slaveholders
Slavery
Social conditions
Women's Studies