Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Gender of Violence
- 2 “Beyond the Limits of Decency”
- 3 Making “Better Girls”
- 4 “Nothing but Deception in Them”
- 5 Out of the House of Bondage
- 6 “A Makeshift Kind of Life”
- 7 “Wild Notions of Right and Wrong”
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Gender of Violence
- 2 “Beyond the Limits of Decency”
- 3 Making “Better Girls”
- 4 “Nothing but Deception in Them”
- 5 Out of the House of Bondage
- 6 “A Makeshift Kind of Life”
- 7 “Wild Notions of Right and Wrong”
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
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- Out of the House of BondageThe Transformation of the Plantation Household, pp. 237 - 264Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003
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(Mrs. Thomas Burge). A Woman's Wartime Journal: An Account of the Passage over a Georgia Plantation of Sherman's Army in the March to the Sea, as Recorded in the Diary of Dolly Sumner Hunt. New York: Century Co., 1918.Google Scholar
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“On the Management of the Butler Estate.” Southern Agriculturalist (December 1862): 523–29.
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My Story of the War: The Civil War Memoirs of the Famous Nurse, Relief Organizer and Suffragette. 1887. Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1995.Google Scholar
Georgia Scenes: Characters, Incidents &c. in the First Century of the Republic. 1835. Reprint, New York: Sagamore Press, 1957.Google Scholar
. A Woman's Civil War: A Diary, with Reminiscences of the War from March 1862. Ed. . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.Google Scholar
Diary of a Southern Refugee During the War by a Lady of Virginia. Ed. . 1867. Reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.Google Scholar
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. The English Housewife. Ed. . 1615. Reprint, Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1986.Google Scholar
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, ed. An Evening When Alone: Four Journals of Single Women in the South, 1827–67. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1993.
. The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveler's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. 2 vols. New York: Mason Brothers, 1861.Google Scholar
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. Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.Google Scholar
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Memoirs of General William T. Sherman. 2nd Ed. 2 vols. 1914. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1931.Google Scholar
. Sack and Destruction of the City of Columbia, South Carolina: To Which is Added a List of the Property Destroyed. Columbia, SC: Power Press of Daily Phoenix, 1865.Google Scholar
. Memorials of a Southern Planter. Ed. . 1887. Reprint, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.Google Scholar
. History of the State Agricultural Society of South Carolina from 1839 to 1845, Inclusive of the State Agricultural Society of South Carolina from 1855 to 1861, Inclusive of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society of South Carolina from 1869–1916, Inclusive. Columbia, SC: R. L. Bryan Co., 1916.Google Scholar
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. Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman. 1856. Reprint, New York: Negro Universities Press, 1968.Google Scholar
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, ed. A Very Violent Rebel: The Civil War Diary of Ellen Renshaw House. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996.
, ed. Dear Ones at Home: Letters from Contraband Camps. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1966.
. Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, Late 1st South Carolina Volunteers. Ed. . 1902. Reprint, New York: Markus Weiner Pub., 1988.Google Scholar
, ed. A World Turned Upside Down: The Palmers of South Santee, 1881–1881. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1996.
Two Diaries: From Middle St. John's Berkeley, South Carolina, February–May, 1865: Journals Kept by Miss Susan B. Jervay and Miss Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, at Northhampton and Poshee Plantations, and Reminiscences of Mrs. (Waring) Henagan, with Contemporary Reports from Federal Officials. [St. John's Island, SC]: St. John's Hunting Club, 1921. Reprinted as Diaries of ‘65 (1994).
, ed. The James A. Graham Papers, 1861–1884. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1928.
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Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all Its Phases. 1892. Reprint, Salem, NH: Ayer Company, Publishers, 1987.Google Scholar
On Lynchings: Southern Horrors, A Red Record, Mob Rule in New Orleans. 1892, 1895, and 1990. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1969.Google Scholar
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