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They Were Her Property White Women as Slave Owners in the American South [Audiobook]
B07NBRWPN3 M4B@64 kbps Author: Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers | Narrator: Allyson Johnson A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.