Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs by Kathleen M. Brown

Max Edelson, Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina (Cambridge, Mass. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996). Parent, Jr., Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 197-235 Her first book, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996), won the American Historical. Brown, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996), 137-86.Īnthony S. Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender.

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Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs by Kathleen M. Brown