A Family Venture
Men and Women on the Southern Frontier
This book is about the different ways that men and women experienced migration from the Southern seaboard to the antebellum Southern frontier. Based upon extensive research in planter family papers, Cashin studies how the sexes went to the frontier with diverging agendas: men tried to escape the family, while women tried to preserve it. On the frontier, men usually settled far from relatives, leaving women lonely and disoriented in a strange environment. As kinship networks broke down, sex roles changed, and relations between men and women became more inequitable. Migration also changed race relations, because many men abandoned paternalistic…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-536385-2
- EAN: 9780195363852
- Produktnummer: 13898486
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 11'986 KB
- Abbildungen: 15 halftones
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