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Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household. By Thavolia Glymph. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. xiv, 279 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 978-0-521-87901-9. Paper, $24.99, ISBN 978-0-521-70398-7.)
Out of the House of Bondage by Thavolia Glymph focuses on the principal site of southern social and familial organization: the household. As such, this study contributes abundantly to the literature on women's history and emancipation. Glymph is concerned not only with understanding how a society responds to an emancipated population but also with exploring the limits of freedom and how gender might dictate the course of, and responses to, such freedom. . . .
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