They Were Her Property
White Women as Slave Owners in the American South
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A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy.
Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African-American history, this audiobook 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.
©2019 Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers (P)2019 Tantor
- the reader is doing an excellent job of making this very dense text easier to digest (but the subject matter is obviously still tough!)
- debunks, one by one, a bunch of sexist concepts that prevented historians from correctly assessing the role(s) white women played as slave owners
- yes, women did own slave
- yes, even married women had their own slaves, separate from their husbands, and sometimes those slaves were treated very differently
- slave owning women were also violent, in some cases, killing the enslaved people they owned
- salve owning women had very clear ideas on how a slave ought to behave and also knew exactly where slaves came from (they were not ignorant!)
- even children already learned from their parents on how to be an "effective" slave owner. some of the anecdotes are particularly harrowing, once you find out a child commanded a certain punishment
I think this is an important read because both the media and historical texts often paint white men as the sole villains in history, when the reality was more complex and allowed white women to be the victims of male domination in some aspects, while they could in turn easily ruin the lives of enslaved people.
Very informative, a must read
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