They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South Binding:Paperback ISBN: 1368098967

ISBN: 1368098967

Chicago Public Library

New York Times staff writer Eric Kim grew up in Atlanta

Rita is terrorized by nagging ghosts who won't let her sleep and who sabotage her personal life

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South Binding:Paperback ISBN: 1368098967Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy "Stunning." Rebecca Onion, Slate "Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present." Parul Sehgal, New York Times "Bracingly revisionist. . . . [A] startling corrective." Nicholas Guyatt, New York Review of Books Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American