A review by marginaliant
Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household by Thavolia Glymph

5.0

Glymph makes a convincing argument about the political nature of plantation households in the US South before and after the Civil War. In her narrative women are not solely figures of the "private sphere," removed from the political contexts of the worlds around them. Slave holding women were as much agents of violence as their husbands were. As mistresses and freedwomen negotiated emancipation and the transition from master-slave relations to employer-employee relations, they transformed the plantation household into a contentious battleground over political rights. I would absolutely recommend this book.