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A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier
Contributor(s): Cashin, Joan E. (Author)

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 ISBN: 0195053443     ISBN-13: 9780195053449
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE: $86.45  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 1991
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Annotation: 'A Family Venture explores a great unwritten chapter of the American past. Sensitive to questions of gender, race, and class, yet free of jargon Cashin's work provides a scholarly and accessible portrait of the southern frontier. Her splendid research and vivid prose provide a compelling volume. This terrific book deserves a wide audience and will surely spark a stampede of future studies on this exciting new historical frontier.'
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - 19th Century
Dewey: 306.097
LCCN: 90043455
Age Level: 22-UP
Grade Level: 17-UP
Lexile Measure: 1460(Not Available)
Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.76" W x 8.62" L (0.84 lbs) 216 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 19th Century
- Cultural Region - South
- Chronological Period - 1800-1850
Features: Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
 
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Publisher Description:
This book is about the different ways that men and women experienced migration from the Southern seaboard to the antebellum Southern frontier. Based upon extensive research in planter family papers, Cashin studies how the sexes went to the frontier with diverging agendas: men tried to escape
the family, while women tried to preserve it. On the frontier, men usually settled far from relatives, leaving women lonely and disoriented in a strange environment. As kinship networks broke down, sex roles changed, and relations between men and women became more inequitable. Migration also changed
race relations, because many men abandoned paternalistic race relations and abused their slaves. However, many women continued to practice paternalism, and a few even sympathized with slaves as they never had before. Drawing on rich archival sources, Cashin examines the decision of families to
migrate, the effects of migration on planter family life, and the way old ties were maintained and new ones formed.
 
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