Black Property Owners in the South, 1790-1915
Loren Schweninger
Winner of the Elliott Rudwick Award
Property ownership has been a traditional means for African Americans to gain recognition and enter the mainstream of American life. This landmark study documents this significant, but often overlooked, aspect of the black experience from the late eighteenth century to World War I.
From published reviews:
"A monumental, authoritative study. . . . Well written, insightful, and displaying clarity in assessments and interpretation." -- Juliet E. K. Walker, The Journal of Southern History
"Far more than a dry statistical study of land ownership. It treats racial restrictions, social interactions, group values, marriage, family, and race relations and is larded with rich anecdotal material of the black struggle for property, independence, and respect. It is a must for anyone interested in black and southern history." -- Joe M. Richardson, Civil War History
LOREN SCHWENINGER, a professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, is the author of James T. Rapier and Reconstruction.
A volume in the series Blacks in the New World, edited by August Meier and John H. Bracey
February 1997 448 pages. 6 x 9 inches. 11 illustrated. Paper, ISBN 0-252-06634-0. $21.95a African American Studies
Marli F. Weiner
Marli Weiner challenges much of the received wisdom on the domestic realm of the nineteenth-century southern plantation--a world in which white mistresses and female slaves labored together to provide food, clothing, and medicines to the larger plantation community. Although divided by race, black and white women were joined by common female experiences and expectations of behavior. Because work and gender affected them as much as race, mistresses and female slaves interacted with one another very differently from the ways they interacted with men.
Supported by the women's own words, Weiner offers fresh interpretations of the ideology of domesticity that influenced women's race relations before the Civil War, the gradual manner in which they changed during the war, and the harsher behaviors that resulted during Reconstruction.
MARLI F. WEINER, an associate professor of history at the University of Maine at Orono, is the editor of A Heritage of Woe: The Civil War Diary of Grace Brown Elmore, 1861-1868.
A volume in the series Women in American History, edited by Mari Jo Buhle, Nancy A. Hewitt, and Anne Firor Scott
August 1997 400 pages. 6 x 9 inches. Cloth, ISBN 0-252-02322-6. $45.95x Paper, ISBN 0-252-06623-5. $19.95a Women's Studies / African American Studies