Among the most prominent icons of the American south is that of the southern belle, immortalized by such figures as Scarlett O'Hara, Dolly Madison, and Lucy Pic

A broad and eloquent study on the relatively overlooked population of single women in the slaveholding South Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy “Stunning.�

Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the benefici

Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study shows how class and race as well as gender shaped women's exper