By Stephanie E.
Jones-Rogers
Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and
African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of
white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a
variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic
actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market.
Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were
often their primary source of wealth. 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.
About the Author
Stephanie E.
Jones-Rogers is Assistant Professor of History at the University of
California, Berkeley.
ISBN 978-0300218664, Yale University Press, © 2019,
Hardcover, 320 pages, Photographs & Illustrations, End Notes, Bibliography
& Index. $30.00. To purchase this book click HERE.
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