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Don H. Doyle
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Slaveholding Widows from the American Revolution Through the Civil War
University of North Carolina Press
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Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves "masters" not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. According to many historians, the privilege of mastery was reserved for white males. But as many as one in ten slaveholders -- sometimes more -- was a widow, and as Kirsten E.
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