Bibliograph

The big house after slavery, Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment, Amy Feely Morsman

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The big house after slavery, Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment, Amy Feely Morsman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-263) and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The big house after slavery

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

490078799

Responsibility statement

Amy Feely Morsman

Series statement

A nation divided

Sub title

Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment

Table Of Contents

"By hard labour and close economy" : Virginia planters go to work -- Keeping up appearances : a crisis of status in Virginia's postwar plantation households -- "For our mutual protection and advancement" : planter families in Virginia's postbellum voluntary organizations -- Baring Virginia's bosom for political gain : politicians, manhood, and debt -- Abandoning the homestead : how the next generation embraced a new South

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