Within the Plantation Household

“We have to thank a daughter of the Deep North for digging up and presenting more neglected testimony of plantation mistresses and their servants than has ever before been assembled so fully or organized and analyzed so cogently and provocatively.”—C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of Books

“An ambitious book that succeeds as history and as historiography. Weaving together multiple strands of analysis—including the psychological—Elizabeth Fox-Genovese elevates American women’s history to a new level of sophistication.”—Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University