Retrieve Purchased Essay
Donate Your Essay
Contact Us
Retrieve Your Essay
Essays 1
Essays 2
Essays 3
Essays 4
Essays 5
Essays 6
Essays 7
Essays 8
Essays 9
Essays 10
Essays 11
Essays 12
Essays 13
Essays 14
Essays 15
Essays 16
Essays 17
Essays 18
Essays 19
Essays 20
Essays 21
Essays 22
Essays 23
Essays 24
Essays 25
Essays 26
Essays 27
Essays 28
Essays 29
Essays 30
Essays 31
Essays 32
Essays 33
Essays 34
Essays 35
Essays 36
Essays 37
Essays 38
Essays 39
Essays 40
Essays 41
Essays 42
Essays 43
Essays 44
Essays 45
Essays 46
Essays 47
Essays 48
Essays 49
Essays 50
Essays 51
Essays 52
Essays 53
Essays 54
Essays 55
Essays 56
Essays 57
Essays 58
Essays 59
Essays 60
Essays 61
Essays 62
Essays 63
Essays 64
Essays 65
Essays 66
Essays 67
Essays 68
Essays 69
Essays 70
Essays 71
Essays 72
Essay on The Plantation Mistress | ||
|
This is the first 1,000 characters of 1806 words (7.22 pages) in the essay titled The Plantation Mistress Clinton’s presents the realities of lives of plantation mistresses their activities as wives, mothers and household managers. The most important contribution that Clinton makes, however, is in showing how the institution of slavery affected all aspects of southern women’s lives. Southern attitudes towards marital fidelity, abortion, and birth control were all conditioned by plantation owner’s need for both heirs (white) and workers (blacks or mostly so). The author warns readers not to replace one myth, that of sexless beauty of purity and pampered idleness, with another –the contemporary romantic image of buried passion ready to erupt at a moment’s notice. For both myths are equally false.This book centers on the life of the planter’s wife in the antebellum south (1780- 1835), the author shows that the white mistress was actually more in bondage that the slaves because she literally had no other woman or a community with who to share her experience. The Negroes, in contrast shared a common background going back roots in Africa, their daily work, and local subculture with fellow slaves. Clinton doesn’t avoid controversial subjects exploited in recent fiction about the antebellum era. She does succeed in exposing the romanticized character of the unfaithful white mistress by showing that promiscuity was simply not part of the accepted code of the southern women. Ample quotations from the women themselves give first – person voice to the text. Catherine Clinton s... |
||
To continue reading the complete essay right now, you must do the following:
|
| |||
|
Keywords: mistress, fellow slaves, marital fidelity, institution of slavery, antebellum south, realities, myth, plantation owners, catherine clinton, lost cause, controversial subjects, household managers, romantic image, popular press, person voice, southern women, moments notice, sexless, promiscuity, clintons