Through extensive research in diaries and letters, Clinton shows that slavery based on race reinforced the patriarchical system resulting in more oppression for white and Black women.  She considers this an often neglected aspect of the growing differences between North and South before the Civil War, and sets out to bust some myths about white women who ran plantations. Contains a lot of information about slavery and its effects on the social world of the ante-bellum South. Very good condition. Pantheon Books. 1982. Paper. USED. $12.00