The Resource Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America : from northern woman to plantation mistress, Rebecca J. Fraser
Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America : from northern woman to plantation mistress, Rebecca J. Fraser
Resource Information
The item Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America : from northern woman to plantation mistress, Rebecca J. Fraser represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America : from northern woman to plantation mistress, Rebecca J. Fraser represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
-
- Chronicles the life of Sarah F. Williams (née Hicks), who was born in New Hartford, NY, educated at the Albany Academy, and then married a plantation owner from North Carolina, who subsequently moved to Georgia. The story is told on the basis of letters she wrote to her parents and sisters from 1853 through the Civil War to 1917--Provided by Publisher
- 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.
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii, 218 pages
- Contents
-
- List of images
- Series preface
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: reading letters, telling stories, and writing history
- "Everything is so different here" : changing cultural landscapes
- An identity in transit : from "true woman" to "southern lady"
- Familial relations : north and south
- Articulating a southern self : georgia, sunnyside and the confederacy
- Reconstructing southern womanhood
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Isbn
- 9780230300705
- Label
- Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America : from northern woman to plantation mistress
- Title
- Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America
- Title remainder
- from northern woman to plantation mistress
- Statement of responsibility
- Rebecca J. Fraser
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- Chronicles the life of Sarah F. Williams (née Hicks), who was born in New Hartford, NY, educated at the Albany Academy, and then married a plantation owner from North Carolina, who subsequently moved to Georgia. The story is told on the basis of letters she wrote to her parents and sisters from 1853 through the Civil War to 1917--Provided by Publisher
- 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.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1978-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Fraser, Rebecca J.
- Dewey number
- 305.30973
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Genders and sexualities in history series
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Women
- Gender identity
- United States
- United States
- Summary expansion
- Born to a privileged middle-class family in 1830s New York State, Sarah Hicks' decision to marry Benjamin Williams, a physician and slaveholder from Greene County, North Carolina, in 1853, was met with slight amazement by her parents, siblings and friends, not least her brother-in-law, James Monroe Brown, a committed anti-slavery campaigner from Ohio. This book traces Sarah's journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled the everyday realities of plantation mistress to the gender script which she had been raised with in the North. She also faced familial divisions and disharmony with her northern kin and new southern in-laws, and the recognition that her whiteness and class accorded her special privileges in the context of mid-nineteenth century America
- Label
- Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America : from northern woman to plantation mistress, Rebecca J. Fraser
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- List of images -- Series preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: reading letters, telling stories, and writing history -- "Everything is so different here" : changing cultural landscapes -- An identity in transit : from "true woman" to "southern lady" -- Familial relations : north and south -- Articulating a southern self : georgia, sunnyside and the confederacy -- Reconstructing southern womanhood -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography
- Control code
- FIEb17317599
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 218 pages
- Isbn
- 9780230300705
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)800030504
- Label
- Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America : from northern woman to plantation mistress, Rebecca J. Fraser
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- List of images -- Series preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: reading letters, telling stories, and writing history -- "Everything is so different here" : changing cultural landscapes -- An identity in transit : from "true woman" to "southern lady" -- Familial relations : north and south -- Articulating a southern self : georgia, sunnyside and the confederacy -- Reconstructing southern womanhood -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography
- Control code
- FIEb17317599
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xiii, 218 pages
- Isbn
- 9780230300705
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)800030504
Library Links
Embed
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.library.eui.eu/portal/Gender-race-and-family-in-nineteenth-century/JfXMQLKlFMk/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.library.eui.eu/portal/Gender-race-and-family-in-nineteenth-century/JfXMQLKlFMk/">Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America : from northern woman to plantation mistress, Rebecca J. Fraser</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.library.eui.eu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="https://link.library.eui.eu/">European University Institute Library</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Item Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America : from northern woman to plantation mistress, Rebecca J. Fraser
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.library.eui.eu/portal/Gender-race-and-family-in-nineteenth-century/JfXMQLKlFMk/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.library.eui.eu/portal/Gender-race-and-family-in-nineteenth-century/JfXMQLKlFMk/">Gender, race and family in nineteenth century America : from northern woman to plantation mistress, Rebecca J. Fraser</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.library.eui.eu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="https://link.library.eui.eu/">European University Institute Library</a></span></span></span></span></div>
