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They Were Her Property

White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

2019

Yale University Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Review

Partners in Brutality

New books investigate the brutality of the internal slave trade by focusing on businesses, and examine the role of white women in enslaving Black people.

by Nicholas Guyatt via New York Review of Books
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on October 18, 2021
Book Review

Her Sentimental Properties

White women have trafficked in Black women’s milk.

by Sarah Mesle via Los Angeles Review of Books on December 22, 2020
Book Review

The Mistress's Tools

White women and the economy of slavery.

by Lynne Feeley via The Nation
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on February 26, 2019
Book Review

Equal-Opportunity Evil

A new book shows that for female slaveholders, the business of human exploitation was just as profitable as it was for men.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate
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on February 14, 2019

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Her Property Transactions: White Women and the Frequency of Female Ownership in the Antebellum Era

White women were especially likely to be owners involved in transactions with enslaved women, where they were listed as owners in nearly 40% of transactions.

by Benton Wishart, Trevor D. Logan via National Bureau Of Economic Research on May 31, 2024

Julia Dent Grant’s Personal Memoirs as a Plantation Narrative

Her memoirs contribute to the inaccurate post-Civil War memory of the Southern plantation.

by Nick Sacco via Muster on July 20, 2021

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