The big house after slavery : Virginia plantation families and their postbellum domestic experiment / Amy Feely Morsman.

Author: Morsman, Amy Feely, 1972-

Imprint:Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.

Descriptionxii, 276 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:"By hard labour and close economy" : Virginia planters go to work -- Keeping up appearances : a crisis of status in Virginia's postwar plantation households -- "For our mutual protection and advancement" : planter families in Virginia's postbellum voluntary organizations -- Baring Virginia's bosom for political gain : politicians, manhood, and debt -- Abandoning the homestead : how the next generation embraced a new South.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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