TY - BOOK AU - Morsman,Amy Feely ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - The big house after slavery: Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment T2 - Nation divided AV - F231 .M68 2010eb U1 - 975.5/03 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Charlottesville PB - University of Virginia Press KW - Plantation life KW - Virginia KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Plantation owners KW - Families KW - Social change KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Sex role KW - Marriage KW - Social life and customs KW - Economic conditions KW - Politics and government KW - 1865-1950 KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/zegu/Doc?id=10495628 ER -