Description and condition:

Red boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, pp xi 237, index, bibliography.

As new, looks unread.

Contents:

Mapping racial boundaries: gender, race and poor relief in Barbados; 'Worse than (white) men, much worse than the Negroes...': sexuality, labour and poor white women in North Carolina; 'To serve her own desires': white women and property holding in Barbadian plantation society; 'There may be my sphere of usefulness...': the making of a North Carolinian plantation mistress; white lives, black bodies: Barbadian women and slaveholding; 'She would labor almost night and day': white women, property rights and slaveholding in North Carolina.