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They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers published by Yale University Press (2019) 320 pages. $30.00 Hardcover, $15.12 Kindle.
The author, Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, argues against the notion prevelent during the 1850s that white slaveowning women in the South were shielded from the worst aspects of slavery, were unaware of its brutality, and only functioned on the margins of slaves lives. While there were a broad set of experiences of slaveowning women, some bought and sold slaves, some ordered the beatings of slaves, and nearly all directed the exploitation of the people that they "owned."
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