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| Author | Stephanie Jones-Rogers |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | History, women's studies, business & economics, 19th century, American-American studies |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
Publication date | February 19, 2019 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print & Digital |
| Pages | 296 (hardcover first edition) |
| Awards | Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Merle Curti Social History Award |
| ISBN | 9780300218664 |
| Website | https://www.stephaniejonesrogers.com/book |
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South is a nonfiction history book by Stephanie Jones-Rogers. They Were Her Property is "the first extensive study of the role of Southern white women in the plantation economy and slave-market system"[1] and disputes conventional wisdom that white women played a passive or minimal role in slaveholding. It was published by Yale University Press and released on February 19, 2019. For the book Jones-Rogers received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Merle Curti Social History Award from the Organization of American Historians.[2][3]
- ^ Varon, Elizabeth R. (2019-02-28). "White women's long-overlooked complicity in the brutality of slaveholding". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
- ^ McDonald, Soraya Nadia (2019-03-15). "In 'They Were Her Property,' a historian shows that white women were deeply involved in the slave economy". Andscape. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
- ^ Sehgal, Parul (2019-02-26). "White Women Were Avid Slaveowners, a New Book Shows". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-14.