The Big House After Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment by Morsman, Amy Feely
The Big House After Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment by Morsman, Amy Feely

The Big House After Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment

The Big House after Slavery examines the economic, social, and political challenges that Virginia planter families faced...
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Author: Amy Feely Morsman
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The Big House After Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment by Morsman, Amy Feely

The Big House After Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment

$998.28
The Big House After Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment by Morsman, Amy Feely

The Big House After Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment

$998.28
Author: Amy Feely Morsman
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Big House after Slavery examines the economic, social, and political challenges that Virginia planter families faced following Confederate defeat and emancipation. Amy Feely Morsman addresses how men and women of the planter class responded to postwar problems and how their adaptations to life without slavery altered their marital relationships and their conceptions of gender roles.

Unable to afford many servants in the new free labor economy, many of Virginia's former masters put themselves to work on their plantations, and their wives had to expand their responsibilities as well, taking on the tasks of cooking and cleaning in addition to working in the garden, the henhouse, and the dairy. Laboring in these ways and struggling to maintain their standing as elites contributed to an identity crisis among Virginia planters. It also led them to practice mutuality within their own marriages and to reconsider what proper Southern womanhood and manhood meant in the new postwar order.

Using newspapers, periodicals, organization records, and numerous letters from Virginia plantation families, Morsman captures how these frustrated elites made sense of embarrassing postwar changes, in the private but also in the public spheres they inhabited. Morsman suggests that the planters' adaptations may have been carried forward by their adult children away from the crumbling plantations and into the urban households of the New South.



Author: Amy Feely Morsman
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 10/13/2010
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.11h x 6.41w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780813930039
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 57

About the Author

Amy Feely Morsman is Associate Professor of History at Middlebury College.


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