15 Minute History

Episode 120: Slave-Owning Women in the Antebellum U.S.


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Historians have long assumed that white women in the U.S. south benefited only indirectly from the ownership of enslaved people. Historians have neglected these women because their behavior didn’t conform to the picture we have of the patriarchal culture of the 18-19 century marriage. In an extraordinary new book, Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers shows that “slave […]
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15 Minute HistoryBy The University of Texas at Austin