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Engendering Whiteness examines the complex diversity of slaveholding and non-slaveholding white women’s material realities within the slave societies of Barbados and North Carolina between the 17th-19th centuries.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Mapping racial boundaries: gender, race and poor relief in Barbados
2. ‘Worse than [white] men, much worse than the negroes…’: sexuality, labour and poor white women in North Carolina
3. To serve her own desires’: white Barbadian women and property holding
4. ‘There may be my sphere of usefulness…’: the making of a North Carolinian plantation mistress
5. White Lives, black bodies: barbadian women and slaveholding
6. ‘She Would Labor Almost Night and Day’: white women, property rights and slave-holding in North Carolina
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

Engendering Whiteness White Women and Colonialism

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 6/30/2014 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719064333, 978-0719064333
      ISBN10: 0719064333

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Engendering Whiteness examines the complex diversity of slaveholding and non-slaveholding white women’s material realities within the slave societies of Barbados and North Carolina between the 17th-19th centuries.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. Mapping racial boundaries: gender, race and poor relief in Barbados
      2. ‘Worse than [white] men, much worse than the negroes…’: sexuality, labour and poor white women in North Carolina
      3. To serve her own desires’: white Barbadian women and property holding
      4. ‘There may be my sphere of usefulness…’: the making of a North Carolinian plantation mistress
      5. White Lives, black bodies: barbadian women and slaveholding
      6. ‘She Would Labor Almost Night and Day’: white women, property rights and slave-holding in North Carolina
      Conclusions
      Bibliography
      Index

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