In this text, Joan Cashin explores the profoundly different ways that planter men and women experienced migration from the Southern seaboard to the antebellum Southern frontier. Migration was a family venture in the sense that both men and women took part. But they went to the frontier with competing agendas: many men tried to escape the intricate kinship networks of the seaboard, while women worked to preserve them if they could. Drawing on archival sources and using the perspectives of several disciplines, Cashin explores the effects of the migration experience on sex roles, the nature of slavery, race relations and a variety of other issues.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801849640
ISBN-13
9780801849640
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96299619
Product Key Features
Author
Joan E. Cashin
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Regional History
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Weight
312g
Height
229mm
Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Baltimore, Md
Content Note
No
Author Biography
Joan E. Cashin is associate professor of history at Ohio State University. She is the author of A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier, also available from Johns Hopkins.