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The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784–1860

Suzanne Lebsock

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The Free Women of Petersburg: Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784–1860

In this book, which has important implications for our vision of the female past, Suzanne Lebsock examines the question, Did the position of women in America deteriorate or improve in the first half of the nineteenth century?

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Publisher
W. W. Norton
Year
1984
ISBN-13
9780393017380
Genre
History
Topics
Women's historySouthern United States historyAntebellum social status

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