Other Sellers on Amazon
+ $3.99 shipping
87% positive over last 12 months
Usually ships within 4 to 5 days.
& FREE Shipping
86% positive over last 12 months
Usually ships within 4 to 5 days.
Download the free Kindle app and start reading Kindle books instantly on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Learn more
Read instantly on your browser with Kindle Cloud Reader.
Using your mobile phone camera - scan the code below and download the Kindle app.
A Family Venture: Men and Women on the Southern Frontier Paperback – October 1, 1994
| Joan E. Cashin (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
| Price | New from | Used from |
Enhance your purchase
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1992-1993
In A Family Venture, Joan Cashin explores the profoundly different ways that planter men and women experienced migration from the Southern seaboard to the antebellum Southern frontier. Migration was a family venture in the sense that both men and women took part. But they went to the frontier with competing agendas: many men tried to escape the intricate kinship networks of the seaboard, while women worked to preserve them if they could. Drawing on extensive archival sources and using the perspectives of several disciplines, Cashin explores the effects of the migration experience on sex roles, the nature of slavery, race relations, and a variety of other issues.
- Print length216 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherJohns Hopkins University Press
- Publication dateOctober 1, 1994
- Dimensions6 x 0.54 x 9 inches
- ISBN-109780801849640
- ISBN-13978-0801849640
- Lexile measure1460L
Frequently bought together

- +
- +
Products related to this item
Editorial Reviews
Review
Cashin's A Family Venture is a deceptively slim volume that packs quite a wallop. In a relatively few pages she comments intelligently, provocatively, and originally on many of the most disputed subjects in southern history―the structure and function of planter families, the status and power of white women, the temperament and achievements of western migrants, and the nature of master-slave relations. Writing with clarity and grace, Cashin brings fresh interpretations to complex problems.
-- Jane Turner Censer ― William and Mary QuarterlyThis lively, human exploration of race, class, and gender in westering before the great leap of the 1850s provides a new look at the impact of individualism in unsuspected places.
-- Sarah Deutsch ― American Historical ReviewAbout the Author
I'd like to read this book on Kindle
Don't have a Kindle? Get your Kindle here, or download a FREE Kindle Reading App.
Product details
- ASIN : 0801849640
- Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press (October 1, 1994)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 216 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780801849640
- ISBN-13 : 978-0801849640
- Lexile measure : 1460L
- Item Weight : 11 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.54 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,716,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,274 in U.S. Abolition of Slavery History
- #6,252 in Zoology (Books)
- #11,963 in Discrimination & Racism
- Customer Reviews:
About the author

Discover more of the author’s books, see similar authors, read author blogs and more
Products related to this item
Customer reviews
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Learn more how customers reviews work on AmazonTop review from the United States
There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.
Some of the best professors I had were dry and boring, and the misery came from having to actually do some work in their class. The only pertinent comment made by "Fury" about the content of A Family Venture was about how "dry" it was. That doesn't reveal anything about the factual content of the book.
The book A Family Venture is well worth the money.
In A Family Venture, Cashin explores the function and structure of Southern planter families. She quotes often from actual letters written by Southern women who comment on their likes and dislikes, how they handle problems, what it feels like to move away from family and familiar structure. In more general terms Cashin talks about power or women's lack of it in many planter families and the achievments or setbacks of Southern "belles" as they move into unfamiliar territory.
While the book may not read like Gone With The Wind, it is still well worth the investment. I give it five stars.


