Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South

by Michele K. Gillespie

Book Overview

Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of the working woman. Neither Lady nor Slave pushes southern history beyond the plantation to examine the lives and labors of ordinary southern women--white, free black, and Indian.

Contributors to this volume illuminate women's involvement in the southern market economy in all its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807854107
• ISBN13: 9780807854105
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"