| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Gender, Race, and Rank in a Revolutionary Age: The Georgia Lowcountry, 1750–1820. By Betty Wood. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. xvi, 104 pp. $25.00, ISBN 0-8203-2183-4.)

Betty Wood's collection of three essays investigates how intersections of race, gender, and class affected women in the Georgia lowcountry before the antebellum era. Wood points out that many historians (for example, Catherine Clinton, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and Deborah Gray White) have investigated other geographic areas or have focused on the antebellum era; they present interpretations based on the situation after the American Revolution and after most slaves had become Christian. Wood believes that those were critical developments in the lives and culture of slaves and that we must push our investigations back further in order to find the origins of their beliefs, ideas, and practices and how they changed over time. She believes this will provide important perspective that can help us better understand competing interpretations by historians. It is a short, impressionistic work, but Wood is essentially successful in her goals. . . .

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