The big house after slavery [electronic resource] : Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment / Amy Feely Morsman.
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TextSeries: Nation dividedPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.Description: xii, 276 p. : illSubject(s): - Plantation life -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
- Plantation owners -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
- Families -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
- Social change -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
- Man-woman relationships -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
- Sex role -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
- Marriage -- Virginia -- History -- 19th century
- Virginia -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Virginia -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
- Virginia -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"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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