{"product_id":"they-were-her-property-white-women-as-slave-owners-in-the-american-south","title":"They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery 2020 Harriet Tubman Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Los Angeles Times 2019 Book Prize in History\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Southern Association for Women's Historians 2020 Julia Cherry Spruill Prize for the best book in southern women's history\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Southern Historical Association 2020 Charles S. Sydnor Award for the best book in southern history published in an odd-numbered year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic 2020 Best Book Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Organization of American Historians 2020 Merle Curti Social History Award for the best book in American social history \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Compelling.\"--Renee Graham, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Stunning.\"--Rebecca Onion, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSlate\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present.\"--Parul Sehgal, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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‚Äëowning 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‚Äëowning 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‚Äëowning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50578930794781,"sku":"9780300251838","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780300251838.jpg?v=1762278346","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/they-were-her-property-white-women-as-slave-owners-in-the-american-south","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}