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We still know little about the experiences of white women in the antebellum South, and for many years students of the period have waited for a broadly based sampling of their writings. In Our Common Affairs, supplying this need, Joan E. Cashin has assembled 128 documents that explore the lives of these women in their own words. She has selected excerpts from letters, diaries, wills, recipe books, and advice literature - most previously unpublished - and drawn from sources in every Southern state. Her subjects include the wives of planters, merchants, professionals, artisans, and yeoman farmers. Organized into six topical chapters - family life, friendship, work, race relations, public life, and the secession crisis - these writings illuminate the experience of white Southern women as never before. In an elegant introductory essay that critically reviews the historiography of the last thirty years, Cashin argues that white women in the slave South created their own distinctive culture, a "culture of resignation," which, unlike that of their Northern counterparts, accepted inequity and refrained from political activity. Our Common Affairs examines the strong ties women developed amon

Author

Joan E. Cashin

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801853074

Subjects

Sociology, History, Gender Studies