Masterful Women Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution Through the Civil War

Masterful Women Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution Through the Civil War Book

Wood, Kirsten E. (2004). Masterful Women Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution Through the Civil War .

This privilege was generally reserved for white males. But as many as one in ten slaveholders was a widow, and as this book demonstrates, slaveholding widows developed their own version of mastery.