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Out of the House of Bondage
296 pages · 2008 · Rating 4.5
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This book explores how black and white women struggled for power within the plantation household, wielding gender as a weapon in their battles over the hierarchical structure of slavery. Glymph demonstrates that mistresses were powerful figures in the plantation hierarchy, rather than the helpless victims of patriarchy often depicted in slave narratives.













































