A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier

by Joan E. Cashin

Book Overview

In A Family Venture , Joan Cashin explores the profoundly different ways that planter men and women experienced migration from the Southern seaboard to the antebellum Southern frontier. Migration was a family venture in the sense that both men and women took part. But they went to the frontier with competing agendas: many men tried to escape the intricate kinship networks of the seaboard, while women worked to preserve them if they could. Drawing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801849640
• ISBN13: 9780801849640
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher