Genders and Sexualities in History: From Northern Woman to Plantation Mistress

Fraser, Rebecca

Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role as plantation mistress to the gender script she had been raised with in the North.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2012-11-16

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230300705

DOI: 10.1057/9781137291851

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 218