Winner 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 “Compelling.

Winner 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.�

Winner 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 “Compelling.

This book examines the lives of the Antebellum South's underprivileged whites in nineteenth-century America.

When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to