Free Women of Petersburg

Status and Culture in a Southern Town 1784-1860

By: Suzanne Lebsock

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Paperback | 1 August 1985 | Edition Number 1

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Focusing on Petersburg, Virginia, Professor Lebsock is able to demonstrate and explain how the status of women could change for the better in an antifeminist environment. She weaves the experiences of individual women together with general social trends, to show, for example, how women's lives were changing in response to the economy and the institutions of property ownership and slavery.

By looking at what the Petersburg women did and thought and comparing their behavior with that of men, Lebsock discovers that they placed high value on economic security, on the personal, on the religious, and on the interests of other women. In a society committed to materialism, male dominance, and the maintenance of slavery, their influence was subversive. They operated from an alternative value system, indeed a distinct female culture.

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"This is one of those rare books which breaks new ground. Southern urban women, black and white, in the antebellum years were different from their plantation counterparts, but Suzanne Lebsock is the first historian to find a way to examine their life experience in illuminating detail." -- Anne Firor Scott, Duke University

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls History Science Science in General Social Issues & Processes Feminism & Feminist Theory

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
Petersburg The Setting	p. 1
The Political Economy Of Marriage	p. 15
Loopholes Separate Estates	p. 54
Free Women Of Color	p. 87
Women Alone Property And Personalism	p. 112
Women Working	p. 146
Women Together Organizations	p. 195
Epilogu e On Feminism, Slavery And The Experience of Defeat	p. 237
An Essay On Sources	p. 250
Notes	p. 261
Index	p. 313
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Free Women of Petersburg

Status and Culture in a Southern Town 1784-1860

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