audiobook The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers by Jean Fagan Yellin; Joseph M Thomas; Kate Culkin; Scott Korb in History

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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 experiences and determined their identities. Drawing upon massive research in diaries; letters; memoirs; and oral histories; the author argues that the lives of antebellum southern women; enslaved and free; differed fundamentally from those of northern women and that it is not possible to understand antebellum southern women by applying models derived from New England sources.