Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord, 1810-1879

240 Pages·2003·14.302 MB·English

by  Leigh Fought

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Southern
Womanhood
and Slavery

Southern
Womanhood
and Slavery
A Biography of
Louisa S. McCord\
1810-1879
Leigh Fought
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESS
COLUMBIA AND LONDON
Copyright © 2003 by
The Curators of the University of Missouri
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, Missouri 65201
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fought, Leigh, 1967-
Southern womanhood and slavery : a biography of Louisa S. McCord,
1810-1879 / Leigh Fought,
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 0-8262-1470-3 (alk. paper)
1. McCord, Louisa Susanna Cheves, 1810-1879. 2. Women and
literature—Southern States—History—19th century. 3. Women plantation
owners—South Carolina—Biography. 4. Women—Southern
States—History—19th century. 5. Authors, American—19th
century—Biography. 6. South Carolina—Intellectual life.
7. Plantation life—South Carolina. 8. Slavery—Southern States.
I. Title.
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FOR THOSE UNREPENTANT SOUTHERN WOMEN
Velma T. Kemp,
Glenna K. Fought,
and Catherine McKenzie.
Without you. .