It Was Really Her Plantation: White Early American Southern Women’s Positions of Authority on Plantations 1607-1776
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Today we have a really interesting guest post lined up for you. I’m happy to introduce Catherine Williams, a graduate student in Early Modern Studies, who will be telling us all about White women in the Early Modern American South. These women held unique positions of power and authority through their scarcity and through the slaves that they owned and managed. Over to you, Catherine!
Allow me to set the scene with the story of Elizabeth Taylor, not the actress but a 1773 bride-to-be from the...