Notes
Introduction
1. For gender analyses of the relationship between deviancy and social control, see especially Rodmell, âMen, Women and Sexualityâ; DâEmilio and Freedman, Intimate Matters, pp. 39â52; Stansell, City of Women, pp. 171â92; Jowkar, âHonor and Shameâ; Schur, Labeling Women Deviant; Ross and Rapp, âSex and Societyâ; Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor; Walkowitz, Prostitution and Victorian Society; Smart and Smart, eds., Women, Sexuality, and Social Control; Fox, âNice Girlâ; Douglas, Purity and Danger.
2. See Kerber, âSeparate Spheres.â
3. Hindus, Prison and Plantation; Tushnet, American Law of Slavery; Ayers, Vengeance and Justice. For a study of nineteenth-century law that analyzes gender, see Bardaglio, âAn Outrage upon Nature.â On slave law in Virginia, see Schwarz, Twice Condemned.
4. Grossberg, Governing the Hearth, p. 300. For evidence that women made gains in property rights under this judicial patriarchy, see Salmon, Women and the Law of Property; and Lebsock, Free Women of Petersburg.
5. Rose, In Slavery and Freedom, p. 98; Brittan and Maynard, Sexism, Racism, and Oppression, p. 212. For an excellent discussion of the need to redefine power from the perspective of the oppressed, see hooks, Feminist Theory, p. 83. See also Collins, Black Feminist Thought, p. 230; and Lerner, âReconceptualizing Differences among Women.â
6. Gordon, âWhatâs New in Womenâs Historyâ and Heroes of Their Own Lives.
7. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll; Blassingame, Slave Community; Gutman, Black Family; Levine, Black Culture; Escott, Slavery Remembered; Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk. See Harris, âFlowering of Afro-American History,â for a fuller treatment of the earliest historiography of slavery.
8. Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor, provides a full treatment of the southern system of honor. See also Ayers, Vengeance and Justice, pp. 9â33; and Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll, passim.
9. For different interpretations of southern paternalism, see especially Gen- ovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll; Gutman, Black Family; and Faust, Sacred Circle. See Tushnet, American Law of Slavery, for a discussion of southern law, slavery, and paternalism.
10. See especially Blassingame, Slave Community; Davis, âReflections on the Black Womanâs Role in the Community of Slavesâ; Gutman, Black Family; Escott, Slavery Remembered; Jones, Labor of Love; Rawick, From Sundown to Sunup; Levine, Black Culture; White, Arânât I a Woman?; Farnham, âSapphire?â; Joyner, Down by the Riverside; Stuckey, Slave Culture. Many scholars have come under fire for having exaggerated the degree of autonomy in the nineteenth-century slave community. See, for example, Kolchin, âReevaluating the Antebellum Slave Community.â For a recent, more critical assessment of the impact of slavery on black males, see Wyatt-Brown, âMask of Obedience.â
11. Aptheker, Womanâs Legacy; Davis, Women, Race, and Class; hooks, Ainât I a Woman?; Giddings, When and Where I Enter; White, Arânât I a Woman?; Jones, Labor of Love; Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household. For a pioneer work on race and gender in the slave community, see Davis, âReflections on the Black Womanâs Role in the Community of Slaves.â
12. Davis, âReflections on the Black Womanâs Role in the Community of Slaves,â p. 9; Giddings, When and Where I Enter, pp. 33â55; White, Arânât I a Woman?, pp. 77â80, 27â61; Fox-Genovese, âStrategies and Forms of Resistance,â pp. 157â59. See also Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household, pp. 291â92.
13. Davis, âThe Role of the Black Woman in the Community of Slaves,â pp. 12â13. See also hooks, Ainât I a Woman?, p. 29. For graphic representations of the sexual oppression of black women, see Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; and Murray, Proud Shoes. On rape and miscegenation in the antebellum South, see Clinton, âSouthern Dishonor.â
14. On racism in the North, see especially Litwack, North of Slavery; and White, ââWe Dwell in Safety and Pursue Our Honest Callings.ââ For a discussion of northern sexism and racism, see Berthoff, âConventional Mentalityâ; and Dudden, Serving Women, pp. 32â35.
15. Franklin, Free Negro in North Carolina, pp. 56â57. The most comprehensive treatment of southern free blacks is Berlin, Slaves without Masters. See also Fields, Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground, pp. 63â89; Burton, In My Fatherâs House, pp. 202â24; Schweninger, âProsperous Blacks in the South.â
16. Lebsock, Free Women of Petersburg, pp. 88â103. On free black women as property owners, see also Schweninger, âProperty-Owning Free African-American Womenâ; and Franklin, Free Negro in North Carolina, pp. 228â29.
17. Fields, Slavery and Freedom on the Middle Ground, p. 88. See also Watson, Jacksonian Politics, pp. 43â44; and Burton, In My Fatherâs House, pp. 47â57.
18. Long, Son of Carolina, p. 47. On upper-class perceptions of poor whites, see Ash, âPoor Whites in the Occupied Southâ; Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor, p. 46. Evidence that many slaves held poor whites and free blacks in contempt is scattered throughout the WPA ex-slave narratives in Rawick, ed., American Slave. See also Blassingame, Slave Community, pp. 276, 306â7.
19. Olmsted, Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, p. 276. James H. Hammond, a South Carolina slaveholder, also remarked that âsomehowâGod forgiveâI could never bear poor girls. When pretty and pure spirited I pitied but nevertheless avoided themâ (quoted in Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor, p. 200). Johnson, Antebellum North Carolina, p. 246, notes that poor white women in North Carolina refused almost all but domestic work, despite low wages, because of the disgrace of public work.
20. Johnson, Antebellum North Carolina, p. 238. For a fuller treatment of the role of yeoman women in the southern household economy, see McCurry, âDefense of Their World.â
21. Dublin, Women at Work; Stansell, City of Women, p. 100. In contrast, the employment of white women in the antebellum cotton mills of the North Carolina Piedmont apparently did not enhance the status of working white women. See Watson, Jacksonian Politics, pp. 43â44; Johnson, Antebellum North Carolina, p. 247; and Kenzer, Kinship and Neighborhood, p. 30.
22. Carlton, âRevolution from Aboveâ; Escott, Many Excellent People; OâBrien, Legal Fraternity; Johnson, Antebellum North Carolina; Calhoon, Religion and the American Revolution in North Carolina. Many southern agricultural presses also extolled the virtues of the busy farm wife. See Bardolph, âNorth Carolina Farm Journalâ; and Hagler, âIdeal Woman in the Antebellum South.â
23. Welter, âCult of True Womanhoodâ; Friedman, Enclosed Garden; Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household, pp. 43â44.
24. See especially Welter, âCult of True Womanhoodâ; Smith-Rosenberg, âFemale World of Love and Ritualâ; Cott, Bonds of Womanhood; Sklar, Catharine Beecher; Epstein, Politics of Domesticity; Ryan, Cradle of the Middle Class. On the southern cult of ladyhood, see Taylor, Cavalier and Yankee, pp. 145â76; Scott, Southern Lady; Clinton, Plantation Mistress; Fox-Genovese, Within the Plantation Household.
25. Scott, Southern Lady; Clinton, Plantation Mistress. For Fox-Genoveseâs analysis of the shaping of gender in slaveholding and nonslaveholding households, see Within the Plantation Household, pp. 38â99. Stephanie McCurryâs âDefense of Their Worldâ also finds that yeoman and planter households in South Carolina were governed by similar principles.
26. Quoted in Faust, ed., Ideology of Slavery, p. 78. See Douglas, Purity and Danger, for an analysis of the connections between systems of honor and sexual purity. For effects of the Jezebel stereotype on black women, see White, Arânât I a Woman?, pp. 30â46; Jones, ââMy Mother Was Much of a Womanââ; Jennings, ââUs Colored Women Had to Go through a Plenty.ââ
27. DâEmilio and Freedman, Intimate Matters, p. xvii.
28. Fox-Genovese, âStrategies and Forms of Resistance,â p. 144.
29. On womenâs marginality, see Smith-Rosenberg, Disorderly Conduct. For works that illumina...