Reviewed by Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania | The William and Mary Quarterly, 60.1

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Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: The Georgia Lowcountry, 1750–1820. By BETTY WOOD. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. Pp. xvi, 104. $25.00.)

Reviewed by Kathleen Brown, University of Pennsylvania

Originally written for the Ninth Annual Jack N. and Addie D. Averitt Lecture Series at Georgia Southern University, the essays in this slim volume examine relationships among women in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Georgia and ultimately challenge the dominant scholarly preoccupation with the antebellum Upper South. Here Betty Wood builds on and draws together her previous work on gender, religion, and slavery, while reconfirming her scholarly commitment to Lowcountry studies.

Wood focuses on three sets of female relationships: between enslaved and free women of color, among white slaveholding women, and among white women of different classes. Historians of the antebellum United States and the colonial Chesapeake have studied these relationships in their respective regions, but they have remained largely unexplored for the revolutionary and early national Lower South. As Wood shows in this and previous works, that region deserves greater attention from scholars, especially those interested in approaching the early South from a global perspective.

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