Neither lady nor slave : working women of the Old South / edited by Susanna Delfino & Michele Gillespie.
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Chapel Hill :
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Table of Contents:
- Dollars never fail to melt their hearts: native women and the market revolution / James Taylor Carson
- Made by the hands of Indians: Cherokee women and trade / Sarah H. Hill
- Producing dependence: women, work, and yeoman households in low-country South Carolina / Stephanie McCurry
- A white woman, of middle age, would be preferred: children's nurses in the old south / Stephanie Cole
- Spheres of influence: working white and black women in Antebellum Savannah / Timothy J. Lockley
- Patient laborers: women at work in the formal economy of West(ern) Virginia / Barbara J. Howe
- Depraved and abandoned women: prostitution in Richmond, Virginia, across the civil war / E. Susan Barber
- The female academy and beyond: three Mordecai sisters at work in the old south / Emily Bingham and Penny Richards
- Peculiar professionals: the financial strategies of the New Orleans Ursulines / Emily Clark
- Faith and frugality in Antebellum Baltimore: the economic credo of the oblate sisters of providence / Diane Batts Morrow
- I can't get my bored on them old Lomes: female textile workers in the antebellum south / Bess Beatty
- To harden a lady's hand: gender politics, racial realities, and women millworkers in Antebellum Georgia / Michele Gillespie
- Invisible woman: female labor in the upper south's iron and mining industries / Susanne Delfino.