02760cam a2200313 4500 759453430 TxAuBib 20190405120000.0 190213s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018953991 9780300218664 hbk. $30.00 0300218664 hbk. $30.00 (OCoLC)1085547912 VHB eng rda VHB SFR YUS MNE HLO JHE OCLCF MUU ORZ IAK YDX FEM DYJ PAU TxGR TxAuBib Jones-rogers, Stephanie E., author. They were her property [Book] : white women as slave owners in the American South / Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers. White women as slave owners in the American South. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019] xx, 296 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-273) and index. Introduction: Mistresses of the market -- Mistresses in the making -- "I belong to de mistis" -- "Missus done her own bossing" -- "She thought she could find a better market" -- "Wet nurse for sale or hire" -- "That 'oman took delight in sellin' slaves" -- "Her slaves have been liberated and lost to her" -- "A most unprecedented robbery" -- Epilogue: Lost kindred, lost cause. "Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South's slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America"-- Provided by publisher. 20190405. Slaveholders Southern States History. Slavery Southern States History 18th century. Slavery Southern States History 19th century. Southern States Social conditions. RV8