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A Family Venture

Men and Women on the Southern Frontier

Joan E Cashin author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:30th Jan '92

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This book deals with the westward migration of the planter families of the seaboard South in the years before the Civil War. Cashin examines the decision of families to migrate, the effects migration had on the family life of the planters, and the way old ties were maintained and new ones formed. The emphasis is on child-rearing and women's lives in the Old Southwest (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana), and Cashin has drawn on rich archival sources to present moving portraits of individual women caught in the flux of change.

Highly readable...This lively, human exploration of race, class, and gender...provides a new look at the impact of individualism in unsuspected places. * American Historical Review *

ISBN: 9780195053449

Dimensions: 216mm x 146mm x 22mm

Weight: 384g

216 pages