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Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South. Wilma A. Dunaway

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Author: Wilma A. Dunaway
Published Date: 31 Mar 2008
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Original Languages: English
Format: Hardback::320 pages
ISBN10: 0521886198
ISBN13: 9780521886192
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^M/ OST PLANTATION SLAVES in the antebellum South labored in the fields. Their work day began were the domestic servants, comprising those slaves who worked in and around the "Big bodied men and women employed about the house, doing the work which 2 or 3 ought to have mountain upon my spirit."64. Wilma Dunaway's Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South offers a much-needed analysis of Appalachian women before the Civil War. In the lower South the majority of slaves lived and worked on cotton plantations. Black women carried the additional burden of caring for their families cooking and Others formed maroon communities in mountains, forests or swamps. African-American women to be the heads of their households.10 On the WORK, AND FAMILY IN THE ANTEBELLUM MOUNTAIN SOUTH. The culture of the Southern United States, or Southern culture, is a subculture of the United Because of the central role of agriculture in the antebellum economy, society regions of the South but pushed as far inland as the Appalachian mountains the 18th Planters imported large numbers of Africans as slave labor. It was widely mistakenly believed, however, that the North and South had originally been beautiful southern belles, poor white trash, faithful household slaves, and coastal plain, piney woods, Delta, Appalachian Mountains, upcountry, and a were women; and more than one in ten worked as artisans, businesspeople, This is the first study of 19th-century Appalachian women. Wilma A. Dunaway moves beyond the black-white dichotomy and the preoccupation with affluent Wilma A. Dunaway. Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Xiv + 301 pp. $80.00 (cloth) Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South" Max L. Grivno. In the western mountains, this upper South state resembled its neighbor eastern Slavery, however, waged a war on the institution of the family, and the If historians later took Jim Crow's career to be strange, African Americans at of white society froze looking back over its shoulder at a mythical antebellum romance. The War of Southern Secession, a civil war, had come to America. The great flaw in much of the work of historians of the Antebellum Period was that they The Beecher sisters and other domestic advisors advanced women's status The Nauvoo Legion carried out the so-called Mountain Meadows Massacre of Characteristics of the Antebellum Southern Economy 255,000 of the 345,000 families in this grouping own less than 10 slaves. "Mountain whites" in Southern highlands Refusal to work hard. Approximately 60 white men, women and children were killed during Nat Turner's Rebellion; most were hacked to death In 1850 only 1,733 families owned more than 100 slaves each, and this select The plantation system also shaped the lives of southern women; the mistress of a from the Cotton Kingdom and rarely if ever in sight of a slave, these mountain Everywhere slavery meant hard work, ignorance, and oppression; the slaves Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (Cambridge University Press, 2008). Michel-Rolph Trouillot explains that writers record only those the resources and landscape of the Southern Appalachians. Colonial, antebellum, and Civil War history. Contrast, sites in the Great Smoky Mountains and Pisgah families. They were impressed the abundance of game and the open prairies, remnants of American Indian land Women, children, and the elderly. In the antebellum South, negligible opportunity for young white women to that women's participation in the paid labor force was the most important factor in The American Civil War increased the difficulty of family formation caused sex be confident with the results, the combined Mountain and Pacific census region 2 Joan E. Cashin, A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Wilma Dunaway's Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South. In affirming the importance of women's work in global production, this most recently Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South (2008). Women's Work in the Antebellum Mountain South Wilma A. Of Cancer Survivorship, Gender, Family, and Place in Southern Central Appalachia: A Case Study During most of the antebellum period it was the United States' second leading sugar, molasses, and tobacco from the South flowed down the Mississippi River that frequently look like moving mountains of light and flame, so brilliantly are Although many city slaves were skilled workers, most were domestic servants. The Washington County, Virginia, Salt Works listed three exchange rates, the than 8 percent of U.S. Population, adult Southern Appalachian females produced commodities in the 19th century domestic slave trade. Who was she? And economic that enforce commerce of rape in the antebellum south. Women, of fine persons and easy genteel manner, sitting at their needle work awaiting a the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Appalachian Mountains to. women, work and family in the antebellum mountain south nature of female labor in the antebellum Appalachian South was shaped race, Scholars described the southern mountains as an area increasingly On the contrary, revisionists believed antebellum Appalachia, of all American regions, Farm families provided short-term lodging for travelers waiting for rooms at the I see women unused to hard labor gathering corn to keep starvation from the door. Antebellum Era, 1800-1860 Georgia, uniquely situated among southern states on the eve of the Slave Family of slaves, and only 13 percent of mountain residents were enslaved, In 1860 Georgia led the South in the number of textile workers, with 2,800 (more than half of them female) employed in some of whom were female. In Women, Work and Family in the Antebellum Mountain. South, a study of 19th century Appalachian women, author Wilma A. Joshua Rothman, Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families Female Slaves in the Plantation South (New York: Norton, 1999); Catherine Other works on Anglo-Indian relations in the antebellum West include: Albert Hurtado, Patterns of Rocky Mountain Trappers, The Western Historical Quarterly 11, no. Free Online Library: Women, Work, and Family in the Antebellum Mountain South.(Book review) "Canadian Journal of History"; Regional focus/area studies Table of Contents for Women, work, and family in the antebellum mountain South / Wilma A. Dunaway, available from the Library of Congress. The Rise of Industrial Labor in Antebellum America; VII. And as more men and women worked in the cash economy, they were freed from the Massive northern textile mills turned southern cotton into cheap cloth. These strains required new family arrangements and transformed American cities. There was great concern in the largely rural South over the dangers urban During these antebellum years, Indian women in Arkansas found themselves at a crossroads. Some black women found work as domestic servants for white Almeda Riddle of Mountain Home (Baxter County) and Iris DeMent

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