Within the plantation household: Black and White women of the Old South

Chapter 1 Southern Women, Southern Households 37 --

Chapter 2 View from the Big House 100 --

Chapter 3 Between Big House and Slave Community 146 --

Chapter 4 Gender Conventions 192 --

Chapter 5 Imaginative Worlds of Slaveholding Women: Louisa Susanna McCord and Her Countrywomen 242 --

Chapter 6 Women Who Opposed Slavery 290 --

Chapter 7 And Women Who Did Not 334.