Southern Womanhood and Slavery is the first full-length biography of Louisa S. McCord, one of the most intriguing intellectuals in antebellum America. The daugh

As Patricia Morton notes in her historiographical introduction, Discovering the Women in Slavery continues the advances made, especially over the last decade, i

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy “Stunning.�

Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the benefici

Although historians over the past two decades have written extensively on the plantation mistress and the slave woman, they have largely neglected the world of