Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers: Discusses Her New Book "They Were Her Property..."
Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers: Discusses Her New Book "They Were Her Property..."
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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers discusses her new book "They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South," a book that dispels a common myth about the role of white women within the institution of slavery, as being one of reluctance and passivity. Previous scholarship has often depicted them as bystanders or even as allies to enslaved people; but in her new book, Jones-Rogers uncovers how white women in the antebellum south were actually adept slave owners and willing participants, reaping both economic and political gain from their involvement.
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