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She builds off other historians’ research by discussing white authority both politically and economically to better expose the experiences of black females in the convict labor industry used to reconstruct the New South. LaGrange, Georgia was notorious for these chain gangs and lessening systems used by companies to further their shareholder’s own wealth. Within these labor programs, often filled with high numbers of those convicted of murder, most women often worked right alongside their counter parts. Leflouria uses many statistical data collected through prison records, present-day newspapers, and other records to show how black female convicts were used for a variety of jobs. She also takes the reader on a painful illustration of the cruel treatment that these women faced as punishment.

Slaves were put into all types of work. “The 125 slaves on one plantation, for instance, included a butler, two waitresses, a nurse, a dairymaid, a gardener, ten carpenters, and two shoe-makers. Other plantations counted among their slaves engineers, blacksmiths, and weavers, as well as domestic workers from cooks to coachman” (Foner 425). Some slaves were put to fuel the steamboats by cutting woods, labor in coal and iron mines, in the southern ports the slaves manned the docks, also laid the railroad tracks. The local authorities put slaves to construct and repair bridges, roads and other facilities.

Some were free black women from the North who went south to attend to the welfare of freed slaves living in areas occupied by the Union army. But others were themselves fugitives from slavery, who provided an important source of support labor for the northern war effort. These women served as cooks and laundresses for the Union troops and as servants for the officers. Although much of their labor was subservient, they were participating in an enterprise that would bring their people freedom, and this gave their labor new

By 1850, most southern women had attended a school of higher education. These schools believed that a proper education prepared these women to be successful plantation mistresses. However, not every young woman was

Marriage on the plantations of Samuel Scott was a business decision. Ultimately, slave owner’s business interests were that the slave population increase. Large slave families create a large workforce and of course a larger profit margin for the slaveholder. Slaveholders determined which couple might produce more offspring.

The fathers of the households worked at jobs such as: agricultural merchant, mill owners, railroad directors, and insurance executives, which are all a position of power. The students at Lucy Cobb were very much similar and had a lot of similar motives. While the students were motivated and took advantage of the educational, club, and professional possibilities that of a woman in the New South was offered. Each of the students also maintained respectability and modesty that was related to the antebellum femininity. These characteristics would provide "protection from disrepute even as they took active roles in shaping the character of the new south" (pg

It was one of the most significant and disputed practice ever to reach the shores of the Western Hemisphere. A dimensional issue that caused much argument and conflict on each of its multiple levels. This was the practice of Slavery. Taking a closer look, there are many different interpretations of what the attitude of American slaves were towards their work experiences. In order to fully answer this question, a closer examination, summary, and comparison will be made of three different historians and their ideas to accurately answer the overarching importance of this question.

Most of the daughters and the wives of farmers were hired to do the harvesting and the households chores, but on the other hand there were women whose husbands “contracted their family labor in exchange for a place to stay.” (page 98) In the middle colonies, unlike the other colonies, most servants were women due to the fact that slavery was almost frowned upon amongst the “wealthy Quaker households.” (page 100) Women were allowed to buy and sell goods and property and can accumulate debt, which at the time was unheard of from women. (page 84)

Wealthy Confederate women forced slaves to do the work they never had to do. However, they too were pushed by the war. They had to expand their definition of “proper” female

The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South takes a profound look into slavery in America from the beginning. The author, Kenneth Stampp, tells the story after doing a lot of research of how the entire South operated with slavery and in the individual states. The author uses many examples from actual plantations and uses a lot of statistics to tell the story of the south. The author’s examples in his work explains what slavery was like, why it existed and what it done to the American people.

Specifically, southern white women used this period to elevate their social status so that they could climb the social tower to gain power and compare to men. Southern women wanted to get out of the ideal that women should only be housewives, so they used slaves to relieve themselves of house chores, which brought them away from just being housewives. This elevated them socially because instead of being ridden with housework, they were give leisure time and time to focus on their husbands and wives. Slaves were thought to benefit because slave owners would take care of the slaves and that they would be better off being a slave than running around Africa. Slave owners would give slaves food, shelter, and clothing, take care of their children, and teach them christianity (Jones, 102).

“The Pastoralization of Housework,” by Jeanne Boydston, discusses how housework's economic worth and significance was minimized in antebellum America. “The Pastoralization of Housework” distinguishes that paid labor began to be identified as “manly” work synonymous with the ideas of productivity, efficiency, and economic growth. At the same time, household work, which was historically carried out by women, was undervalued and painted as unimportant, unproductive, and unhelpful to the economy. The devaluation of household labor was a purposeful attack to distinguish what a highly patriarchal society considered productive and non-productive. Thus, constructing separate spheres for the sexes, with men belonging to the public sphere (productive)

Frederick Douglass: An American Slave Destined to Escape the Menacing Effects of Slavery and Humanize Himself in the Eyes of White Culture Frederick Douglass, a former slave and human rights leader in the abolition movement, was born into slavery in Tuckahoe, Maryland in 1818. He spent the first seven years of his life living with his maternal grandmother in a plantation owned by Colonel Edward Lloyd in Talbot County. He was eventually sold to a man named Hugh Auld and sent to live in Baltimore. It was here that Douglass first acquired the skills that would vault him to national prominence as one of the most sought after anti-slavery speakers of the nineteenth century. Defying tremendous odds, Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write.

As miserable as it is to be a slave in the South, being a black women worsens the condition. The role of a black women in both the Union and the Confederacy have always been portrayed and elaborated on the orthodox that black women are meant for manual labor, for being tools and for assisting men. However, black women in the South are treated much harsher of course. Majority of black women enslaved were vulnerable to rape, physical abuse and having their families taken away. While the Confederacy took black male slaves into the camp, black women were left to care for their children themselves while managing their plantations and other labor.

They daily routine are knitted, prepared food, guided the slaves, stitched, and grew the children. Women also had their own room in the house that men could not enter. For them, a house guest to enter the women's quarters has counted a