Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South
A broad and eloquent study on the relatively overlooked population of single women in the slaveholding South
Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South investigates the lives of unmarried white women—from the pre- to the post-Civil War South—within a society that placed high value on women''s marriage and motherhood. Marie S. Molloy examines female singleness to inco...
A broad and eloquent study on the relatively overlooked population of single women in the slaveholding South
Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South investigates the lives of unmarried white women—from the pre- to the post-Civil War South—within a society that placed high value on women''s marriage and motherhood. Marie S. Molloy examines female singleness to inco...
