The Santa Fe New Mexican has a review that says the book is important, but that it may overstate its case: https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/books/they-were-her-property-white-women-as-slave-owners-in/article_a3c4d2fa-2058-50b0-9ffc-d00c221b1782.html From the review: Topics now at the forefront of the American consciousness, such as white privilege, minority invisibility, and affirmative action, point to a cultural trend of becoming awakened to the residual side effects of systemic racism — that is, the idea of seeking accountability without relying on preconceptions and stereotypes. In the case of They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South, Stephanie Jones-Rogers holds that women have always been fully capable of committing acts of ruthlessness and cruelty related to slavery, and that this difficult fact ought to be included in any serious discussion about the foundations of the American institution. The role of white women in relation to the barbarity of the American slave economy has long been sidestepped, Jones-Rogers contends.