The first book-length study of household servants and slaves, exploring a visual history over 400 years and four continents The first book-length study of both

This book investigates child domestic servitude in Ghana, showing the process of the children's recruitment into domestic servitude, revealing their working con

Born in the racist ante-bellum South, Henriette DeLille felt a lifelong calling to serve the poor but could not enter a holy order because she was an octoroon,

The plantation household was, first and foremost, a site of production. This fundamental fact has generally been overshadowed by popular and scholarly images of

"With the home the sacred center of social life in the nineteenth-century United States, few social tensions carried more weight than "the servant problem." As