| A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier Revised Edition Contributor(s): Cashin, Joan E. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801849640 ISBN-13: 9780801849640 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $31.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1994 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Slavery |
| Dewey: 306.097 |
| LCCN: 94014544 |
| Lexile Measure: 1460 |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 6.16" W x 9.06" (0.76 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In A Family Venture, Joan Cashin explores the profoundly different ways that planter men and women experienced migration from the Southern seaboard to the antebellum Southern frontier. Migration was a family venture in the sense that both men and women took part. But they went to the frontier with competing agendas: many men tried to escape the intricate kinship networks of the seaboard, while women worked to preserve them if they could. Drawing on extensive archival sources and using the perspectives of several disciplines, Cashin explores the effects of the migration experience on sex roles, the nature of slavery, race relations, and a variety of other issues. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cashin, Joan E.: - Joan E. Cashin is associate professor of history at Ohio State University. She is the author of A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier, also available from Johns Hopkins. |