Check if you have access via personal or institutional login This rich and innovative collection explores the ways in which Black women, from diverse regions of the American South, employed various ...

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.

Knox's plantation, Mount Pleasant ... leave -- which 3 out of 4 white men of military age do during the Civil War -- white women are left, as one wrote to Jefferson Davis, "unprotected and ...