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

In Southern Society and Its Transformations, a new set of scholars challenge conventional perceptions of the antebellum South as an economically static region c

Covering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a

Class, race, and gender collide in this insightful examination of the life of Susanna (Susan) Preston Shelby Grigsby (1830–1891)—a white plantation mistress

The third edition of Southern Women relays the historical narrative of both black and white women in the patriarchal South. Covering primarily the years between