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 “Compelling.

This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

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

For over two centuries, the topic of slave breeding has occupied a controversial place in the master narrative of American history. From nineteenth-century abol

When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United States. The rou