Review
ÝC¨rucial to our understanding not only of gender but of race and power in colonial Virginia."Journal of Southwest Georgia History"
ÝS¨he has transformed even the very familiar by her original thinking and her command of recent theoretical formulations.
"Signs"
Meticulously researched, carefully reasoned, and gracefully written, this book should be on the reading list of every historian.
"American Historical Review"
Should be a standard purchase for all academic libraries with holdings in U.S. history.
"Choice"
This big book is intriguing, provocative, and deeply unsettling.
"Journal of Southern History"
"Meticulously researched, carefully reasoned, and gracefully written, this book should be on the reading list of every historian.
"American Historical Review""
"This big book is intriguing, provocative, and deeply unsettling.
"Journal of Southern History""
[C]rucial to our understanding not only of gender but of race and power in colonial Virginia.
"Journal of Southwest Georgia History"
[S]he has transformed even the very familiar by her original thinking and her command of recent theoretical formulations.
"Signs"
Review
Kathleen Brown has written an important book that is going to revolutionize our understanding of colonial Virginia, of the origins of slavery, and of the role of gender in the evolution of early American society. . . . An admirable combination of sophisticated conceptual design and richly textured and original data . . . that will have a major intellectual impact across the fields of American history." —Drew Gilpin Faust, author of Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
From the Inside Flap
Based on the perspective of gender, this compelling study examines the origins of racism and slavery in colonial Virginia from 1676 to the eighteenth century. According to Brown, gender is both a basic social relationship and a model for social hierarchies and it therefore helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery legally, politically, as well as socially.
From the Back Cover
Based on the perspective of gender, this compelling study examines the origins of racism and slavery in colonial Virginia from 1676 to the eighteenth century. According to Brown, gender is both a basic social relationship and a model for social hierarchies and it therefore helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery legally, politically, as well as socially.
About the Author
Kathleen M. Brown is associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania.
