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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300218664
ISBN-13
9780300218664
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038301363
Product Key Features
Book Title
They Were Her Property : White Women As Slave Owners in the American South
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Topic
Slavery, United States / 19th Century, Women's Studies, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
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Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
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Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
22.9 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2018-953991
Dewey Edition
23
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"Taut and cogent . . . . They Were Her Property joins a tide of recent books--among them, Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton , Edward Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told , Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams and Caitlin Rosenthal's Accounting for Slavery --that examine how slavery laid the foundation of American capitalism."--Parul Sehgal, New York Times "Jones-Rogers is a crisp and focused writer . . . . This scrupulous history makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present."--Parul Sehgal, New York Times "Compelling."--Renee Graham, Boston Globe "Stunning."--Rebecca Onion, Slate "In holding slave-owning women to account, Jones-Rogers has provided a brilliant, innovative analysis of American slavery, one that sets a new standard for scholarship on the subject."--Elizabeth R. Varon, Washington Post "Jones-Rogers brings an unseen world to life" --Parul Sehgal, International New York Times "Herein lies the greatest innovation of Jones-Rogers's book--to show that the power white women wielded over enslaved people, reflected in horrific violence, extended into the economic structures of slavery. They engaged in brutal acts with the logic of the market in mind. Hers is the first book to isolate white women as economic actors in the slave system, and thus the first to dismantle another long-standing myth about these women--that they simply stood by as men conducted the business of slavery."--Lynne Feeley, The Nation "Strongly recommended for readers interested in this period of U.S. history, or who wish to expand their understanding to include a more honest view of the Southern slave system.-- Library Journal "One of the most significant books on the history of women and slavery."--Edward E. Baptist, author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism "Stephanie Jones-Rogers has written a highly original book that will change the way we think about women enslavers in the United States. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of gender, slavery and capitalism."--Daina Ramey Berry, author of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation "This is a deeply researched and powerfully argued book that completely overturns romanticized notions of the plantation mistresses and resistant southern white women. Stephanie Jones-Rogers reveals how deeply complicit slaveholding white women were in upholding the everyday cruelties and barbarity of racial slavery."--Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition " They Were Her Property casts brilliant, unsparing light on the history of slaveholding women and the terrible oscillation of domination and dependence that defined identities--as wives, as mothers, as mistresses--purchased in the slave market."--Walter Johnson, author of River of Dark Dreams "They Were Her Property is nothing less than phenomenal. It shatters many sacred cows about women's history and legal history and shows how slaveowning women skirted the limitations of gender norms and statutory law in ways that have been previously underestimated. The findings are buttressed by reading anew a rich and prodigious body of primary sources. This is a must read."--Tera W. Hunter, Edwards Professor of History and Professor of African-American Studies, Princeton University, "This is a deeply researched and powerfully argued book that completely overturns romanticized notions of the plantation mistresses and resistant southern white women. Stephanie Jones-Rogers reveals how deeply complicit slaveholding white women were in upholding the everyday cruelties and barbarity of racial slavery."--Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition, "Stephanie Jones-Rogers has written a highly original book that will change the way we think about women enslavers in the United States. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of gender, slavery and capitalism."--Daina Ramey Berry, author of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation, "One of the most significant books on the history of women and slavery."--Edward E. Baptist, author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism, "Compelling."--Renee Graham, Boston Globe "Stunning."--Rebecca Onion, Slate "One of the most significant books on the history of women and slavery."--Edward E. Baptist, author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism "Stephanie Jones-Rogers has written a highly original book that will change the way we think about women enslavers in the United States. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of gender, slavery and capitalism."--Daina Ramey Berry, author of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation "This is a deeply researched and powerfully argued book that completely overturns romanticized notions of the plantation mistresses and resistant southern white women. Stephanie Jones-Rogers reveals how deeply complicit slaveholding white women were in upholding the everyday cruelties and barbarity of racial slavery."--Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition " They Were Her Property casts brilliant, unsparing light on the history of slaveholding women and the terrible oscillation of domination and dependence that defined identities--as wives, as mothers, as mistresses--purchased in the slave market."--Walter Johnson, author of River of Dark Dreams "They Were Her Property is nothing less than phenomenal. It shatters many sacred cows about women's history and legal history and shows how slaveowning women skirted the limitations of gender norms and statutory law in ways that have been previously underestimated. The findings are buttressed by reading anew a rich and prodigious body of primary sources. This is a must read."--Tera W. Hunter, Edwards Professor of History and Professor of African-American Studies, Princeton University, " They Were Her Property casts brilliant, unsparing light on the history of slaveholding women and the terrible oscillation of domination and dependence that defined identities--as wives, as mothers, as mistresses--purchased in the slave market."--Walter Johnson, author of River of Dark Dreams, "Taut and cogent . . . . They Were Her Property joins a tide of recent books--among them, Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton , Edward Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told , Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams and Caitlin Rosenthal's Accounting for Slavery --that examine how slavery laid the foundation of American capitalism."--Parul Sehgal, New York Times "Jones-Rogers is a crisp and focused writer . . . . This scrupulous history makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present."--Parul Sehgal, New York Times "Compelling."--Renee Graham, Boston Globe "Stunning."--Rebecca Onion, Slate "In holding slave-owning women to account, Jones-Rogers has provided a brilliant, innovative analysis of American slavery, one that sets a new standard for scholarship on the subject."--Elizabeth R. Varon, Washington Post "Jones-Rogers brings an unseen world to life" --Parul Sehgal, International New York Times "Herein lies the greatest innovation of Jones-Rogers's book--to show that the power white women wielded over enslaved people, reflected in horrific violence, extended into the economic structures of slavery. They engaged in brutal acts with the logic of the market in mind. Hers is the first book to isolate white women as economic actors in the slave system, and thus the first to dismantle another long-standing myth about these women--that they simply stood by as men conducted the business of slavery."--Lynne Feeley, The Nation "One of the most significant books on the history of women and slavery."--Edward E. Baptist, author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism "Stephanie Jones-Rogers has written a highly original book that will change the way we think about women enslavers in the United States. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of gender, slavery and capitalism."--Daina Ramey Berry, author of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation "This is a deeply researched and powerfully argued book that completely overturns romanticized notions of the plantation mistresses and resistant southern white women. Stephanie Jones-Rogers reveals how deeply complicit slaveholding white women were in upholding the everyday cruelties and barbarity of racial slavery."--Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition " They Were Her Property casts brilliant, unsparing light on the history of slaveholding women and the terrible oscillation of domination and dependence that defined identities--as wives, as mothers, as mistresses--purchased in the slave market."--Walter Johnson, author of River of Dark Dreams "They Were Her Property is nothing less than phenomenal. It shatters many sacred cows about women's history and legal history and shows how slaveowning women skirted the limitations of gender norms and statutory law in ways that have been previously underestimated. The findings are buttressed by reading anew a rich and prodigious body of primary sources. This is a must read."--Tera W. Hunter, Edwards Professor of History and Professor of African-American Studies, Princeton University, "Taut and cogent . . . . They Were Her Property joins a tide of recent books--among them, Sven Beckert''s Empire of Cotton , Edward Baptist''s The Half Has Never Been Told , Walter Johnson''s River of Dark Dreams and Caitlin Rosenthal''s Accounting for Slavery --that examine how slavery laid the foundation of American capitalism."--Parul Sehgal, New York Times "Jones-Rogers is a crisp and focused writer . . . . This scrupulous history makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present."--Parul Sehgal, New York Times "Compelling."--Renee Graham, Boston Globe "Stunning."--Rebecca Onion, Slate "In holding slave-owning women to account, Jones-Rogers has provided a brilliant, innovative analysis of American slavery, one that sets a new standard for scholarship on the subject."--Elizabeth R. Varon, Washington Post "Jones-Rogers brings an unseen world to life" --Parul Sehgal, International New York Times "Herein lies the greatest innovation of Jones-Rogers''s book--to show that the power white women wielded over enslaved people, reflected in horrific violence, extended into the economic structures of slavery. They engaged in brutal acts with the logic of the market in mind. Hers is the first book to isolate white women as economic actors in the slave system, and thus the first to dismantle another long-standing myth about these women--that they simply stood by as men conducted the business of slavery."--Lynne Feeley, The Nation "Strongly recommended for readers interested in this period of U.S. history, or who wish to expand their understanding to include a more honest view of the Southern slave system.-- Library Journal "This is an important work that changes the way scholars and the public will view the role of white women during antebellum slavery. This book challenges the notion of southern white women as silent beneficiaries of the peculiar institution and suggests that they played a more dominant role in shaping the social and economic structures of plantation life."--Lonnie G. Bunch III, Founding Director, National Museum of African American History and Culture, Evoke.org "One of the most significant books on the history of women and slavery."--Edward E. Baptist, author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism "Stephanie Jones-Rogers has written a highly original book that will change the way we think about women enslavers in the United States. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of gender, slavery and capitalism."--Daina Ramey Berry, author of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation "This is a deeply researched and powerfully argued book that completely overturns romanticized notions of the plantation mistresses and resistant southern white women. Stephanie Jones-Rogers reveals how deeply complicit slaveholding white women were in upholding the everyday cruelties and barbarity of racial slavery."--Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave''s Cause: A History of Abolition " They Were Her Property casts brilliant, unsparing light on the history of slaveholding women and the terrible oscillation of domination and dependence that defined identities--as wives, as mothers, as mistresses--purchased in the slave market."--Walter Johnson, author of River of Dark Dreams "They Were Her Property is nothing less than phenomenal. It shatters many sacred cows about women''s history and legal history and shows how slaveowning women skirted the limitations of gender norms and statutory law in ways that have been previously underestimated. The findings are buttressed by reading anew a rich and prodigious body of primary sources. This is a must read."--Tera W. Hunter, Edwards Professor of History and Professor of African-American Studies, Princeton University, "One of the most significant books on the history of women and slavery."--Edward E. Baptist, author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism "Stephanie Jones-Rogers has written a highly original book that will change the way we think about women enslavers in the United States. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of gender, slavery and capitalism."--Daina Ramey Berry, author of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation "This is a deeply researched and powerfully argued book that completely overturns romanticized notions of the plantation mistresses and resistant southern white women. Stephanie Jones-Rogers reveals how deeply complicit slaveholding white women were in upholding the everyday cruelties and barbarity of racial slavery."--Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition " They Were Her Property casts brilliant, unsparing light on the history of slaveholding women and the terrible oscillation of domination and dependence that defined identities--as wives, as mothers, as mistresses--purchased in the slave market."--Walter Johnson, author of River of Dark Dreams "They Were Her Property is nothing less than phenomenal. It shatters many sacred cows about women's history and legal history and shows how slaveowning women skirted the limitations of gender norms and statutory law in ways that have been previously underestimated. The findings are buttressed by reading anew a rich and prodigious body of primary sources. This is a must read."--Tera W. Hunter, Edwards Professor of History and Professor of African-American Studies, Princeton University, "Compelling."--Renee Graham, Boston Globe "Stunning."--Rebecca Onion, Slate "Taut and cogent . . . . They Were Her Property joins a tide of recent books--among them, Sven Beckert's Empire of Cotton , Edward Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told , Walter Johnson's River of Dark Dreams and Caitlin Rosenthal's Accounting for Slavery --that examine how slavery laid the foundation of American capitalism."--Parul Sehgal, New York Times "Jones-Rogers is a crisp and focused writer . . . . This scrupulous history makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present."--Parul Sehgal, New York Times "One of the most significant books on the history of women and slavery."--Edward E. Baptist, author of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism "Stephanie Jones-Rogers has written a highly original book that will change the way we think about women enslavers in the United States. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of gender, slavery and capitalism."--Daina Ramey Berry, author of The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation "This is a deeply researched and powerfully argued book that completely overturns romanticized notions of the plantation mistresses and resistant southern white women. Stephanie Jones-Rogers reveals how deeply complicit slaveholding white women were in upholding the everyday cruelties and barbarity of racial slavery."--Manisha Sinha, author of The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition " They Were Her Property casts brilliant, unsparing light on the history of slaveholding women and the terrible oscillation of domination and dependence that defined identities--as wives, as mothers, as mistresses--purchased in the slave market."--Walter Johnson, author of River of Dark Dreams "They Were Her Property is nothing less than phenomenal. It shatters many sacred cows about women's history and legal history and shows how slaveowning women skirted the limitations of gender norms and statutory law in ways that have been previously underestimated. The findings are buttressed by reading anew a rich and prodigious body of primary sources. This is a must read."--Tera W. Hunter, Edwards Professor of History and Professor of African-American Studies, Princeton University, "They Were Her Property is nothing less than phenomenal. It shatters many sacred cows about women's history and legal history and shows how slaveowning women skirted the limitations of gender norms and statutory law in ways that have been previously underestimated. The findings are buttressed by reading anew a rich and prodigious body of primary sources. This is a must read."--Tera W. Hunter, Edwards Professor of History and Professor of African-American Studies, Princeton University
Dewey Decimal
306.3620975
Synopsis
A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy 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., Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy "Stunning."--Rebecca Onion, Slate "Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present."--Parul Sehgal, New York Times "Bracingly revisionist. . . . [A] startling corrective."--Nicholas Guyatt, New York Review of Books 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 slaveowning 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., Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy "Stunning."--Rebecca Onion, Slate "Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present."--Parul Sehgal, New York Times "Bracingly revisionist. . . . [A] startling corrective."--Nicholas Guyatt, New York Review of Books 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.
LC Classification Number
E443.J775 2019
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- 5***i (243)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseCd new, sealed as listed. Well packaged. Super fast delivery; 2 days. Excellent transaction, great seller. Thank you.JIMMY WAHLSTEEN - 181st. Songs - CD Candyrat Records- **BRAND NEW/STILL SEALED** (#236247081725)
- a***a (189)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseWhat a phenomenal seller & shipper!!! The attention to details on the shipment was incredible! It could not have been packaged any better. What a profound presentation before I even got to the product! The product itself was BETTER than described and in pristine condition! So happy with this purchase at a great price. Definitely will be viewing this seller’s store to make more similar purchases. Buy with confidence from this seller. I will again!AMERICAN CARS of the 1960's - Consumer Guide - Hardcover - New Plastic Wear (#236162786576)
- e***s (3357)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThe proof arrived well wrapped and mailed in a box. The seller listed the proof in good condition. I think most sellers would list it as like new to new. The proof appears to have never been opened. I consider this seller as one of the best on eBay. Thanks again for an outstanding purchase.Edited by - Ellen Datlow - Subterranean Press - Advance Uncorrected Proof - Good (#236187854714)