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 “Compelling.

This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abol

"A Sarah Mills Hodge Fund publication"--Title page verso.

Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's exper