Book

They Were Her Property

White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

2019

Yale University Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

1836 lithograph of a slave trader marching enslaved people to be sold.

Partners in Brutality

New books investigate the brutality of the internal slave trade by focusing on businesses, and examine the role of white women in enslaving Black people.

by Nicholas Guyatt via New York Review of Books on October 18, 2021

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Her Property Transactions: White Women and the Frequency of Female Ownership in the Antebellum Era

White women were especially likely to be owners involved in transactions with enslaved women, where they were listed as owners in nearly 40% of transactions.

by Benton Wishart, Trevor D. Logan via National Bureau Of Economic Research on May 31, 2024

Julia Dent Grant’s Personal Memoirs as a Plantation Narrative

Her memoirs contribute to the inaccurate post-Civil War memory of the Southern plantation.

by Nick Sacco via Muster on July 20, 2021

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