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Loading... A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontierby Joan E. Cashin
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This book is about the different ways that men and women experienced migration from the Southern seaboard to the antebellum Southern frontier. Based upon extensive research in planter family papers, Cashin studies how the sexes went to the frontier with diverging agendas: men tried to escapethe family, while women tried to preserve it. On the frontier, men usually settled far from relatives, leaving women lonely and disoriented in a strange environment. As kinship networks broke down, sex roles changed, and relations between men and women became more inequitable. Migration also changedrace relations, because many men abandoned paternalistic race relations and abused their slaves. However, many women continued to practice paternalism, and a few even sympathized with slaves as they never had before. Drawing on rich archival sources, Cashin examines the decision of families tomigrate, the effects of migration on planter family life, and the way old ties were maintained and new ones formed. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)975.03History and Geography North America Southeastern U.S. 1776-1865: Antebellum Era & Civil WarLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |