They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
南部アメリカの奴隷制における白人女性の役割を、一次史料から丁寧に検証する研究書。
作品情報
南部アメリカの奴隷制における白人女性の役割を、一次史料から丁寧に検証する研究書。
南部アメリカの奴隷制における白人女性の役割を、一次史料から丁寧に検証する研究書。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Yale University Press
- 発売日
- 2019-02-19
- ページ数
- 320ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 23.88 x 15.75 x 3.05 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780300218664
- ISBN-10
- 0300218664
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/History/Americas/United States/Civil War/Abolition
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy “Stunning.”—Rebecca Onion, Slate “Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present.”—Parul Sehgal, New York Times “Bracingly revisionist. . . . [A] startling corrective.”—Nicholas Guyatt, New York Review of Books Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is associate professor and Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She received a Dan David Prize in 2023 for her scholarship.
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Academic / Thought-Provoking
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South is a powerful, eye-opening work that challenges long-held assumptions about slavery and gender in American history. Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers thoroughly dismantles the myth that white women were passive or marginal participants in the institution of slavery. Through meticulous research and extensive use of primary sources, including legal records, letters, and testimonies from formerly enslaved people—the book reveals that many white women were active, knowledgeable, and often brutal slave owners in their own right. What makes this book especially compelling is how it centers the voices and experiences of enslaved people to expose the economic, legal, and physical power white women wielded. Jones-Rogers shows that white women not only benefited from slavery but also enforced it, defended it, and used it to build wealth and social status. The writing is clear, authoritative, and accessible, making complex historical arguments understandable without oversimplifying them. This book is an essential read for anyone studying American history, slavery, race, or gender. It forces readers to confront uncomfortable truths and rethink narratives that have long softened or excused the role of white women in slavery. They Were Her Property is both academically rigorous and deeply impactful—a necessary contribution to honest historical understanding.
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A closer look at the American slave society
This book is an addendum to a vast academic well of knowledge of the Southern slave system in place in the antebelum South. It also sheds light on what role the northern states played in the perpetuation of the slave system.
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Thank you very much seller.
I have received the order. Excellent book.
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Knowledge is Empowerment
A great read if you interested in empowering your conversation.
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Interessantes aus Originalquellen
Recht gut zu lesen, bietet neue Einsichten.
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