The Big House After Slavery

The Big House After Slavery
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Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9780813930039
ISBN-13 : 0813930030
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Book Synopsis The Big House After Slavery by : Amy Feely Morsman

Download or read book The Big House After Slavery written by Amy Feely Morsman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2010-09-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using newspapers, periodicals, organization records, and numerous letters from Virginia planation families, Morsman captures how these frustrated elites made sense of embarrassing postwar changes, in the private but also in the public spheres they inhabited. Morsman suggests that the planters' adaptations may have been carried away from the crumbling plantations by their adult children into the urban house-holds of the New South. --Book Jacket.


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