Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's exper

The plantation household was, first and foremost, a site of production. This fundamental fact has generally been overshadowed by popular and scholarly images of

This receipt book provides a flavorful record of plantation cooking, folk medicine, travel, and social life in the antebellum South, with 82 recently discovered

Fifteen years after its hardcover debut, the FSG Classics reissue of the celebrated work of narrative nonfiction that won the National Book Award and changed th

Shows and describes the historical background of fourteen colonial plantations