Catherine Clinton, the writer of The Plantation Mistress, calls out the many literature pieces concerning slavery, the South, and the many myths concerning the women of this time, in her book. She shows how in literature much of the focus is on the plantation master rather than the women of these plantations and she rather focus on the women in her piece. Through her book readers finally get a serious look at how “the southern belle” lives and how they were treated. The study in her book focuses mainly on the elite women in the southern society, in the early to mid-1800s, with at least 20 slaves or more and what they experience in their lives. Clinton’s major thesis, her major argument, lies in the thought of white women in the South experienced
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Many of the women were from the Old World brought over to marry men against their wishes. Women ended up only having roles and household managers. Their lives began to be consumed with housework and having to take over and control the slave population for their households. Clinton also states that being a farmer’s wife is easier and they have a better life than a plantation owner’s wife because the farmer’s wife does not have to deal with many …show more content…
This book is a bias. It does not include the side of the white men, or the slaves, female or male. The book also does not include the economic or political side of this. With women out of the picture men did not really have to worry about neither them nor their feelings. Also since the book comes from primary sources like diary entries and journals we do not know if the women were exaggerating when they wrote about what was going on in their life. Another thought of conspiracy could be that since this book was also written by a white woman she could also be making excuses for why the women treated slaves the way they did and the reasons they behaved the way they did. For a reader all of this needs to be acknowledged because the reader should not base any research or their opinion off of one
Many of the women were from the Old World brought over to marry men against their wishes. Women ended up only having roles and household managers. Their lives began to be consumed with housework and having to take over and control the slave population for their households. Clinton also states that being a farmer’s wife is easier and they have a better life than a plantation owner’s wife because the farmer’s wife does not have to deal with many …show more content…
This book is a bias. It does not include the side of the white men, or the slaves, female or male. The book also does not include the economic or political side of this. With women out of the picture men did not really have to worry about neither them nor their feelings. Also since the book comes from primary sources like diary entries and journals we do not know if the women were exaggerating when they wrote about what was going on in their life. Another thought of conspiracy could be that since this book was also written by a white woman she could also be making excuses for why the women treated slaves the way they did and the reasons they behaved the way they did. For a reader all of this needs to be acknowledged because the reader should not base any research or their opinion off of one