The testimony of formerly enslaved people and other narrative sources, legal documents, and financial records dramatically reshape current understandings of white women’s economic relationships to slavery, situating those relationships firmly at the center of nineteenth-century America’s most significant and devastating system of economic exchange. White slave-owning women were not the only ones to insist on their profound economic investments in the institution of slavery the enslaved people they owned and white members of southern communities did too.
“ White Women and the Economy of Slavery” by Stephanie Jones-Rogers.
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