founding first ladies and slaves
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Schwartz, Marie Jenkins
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- VS 1D 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- regeringsleiders, partners van, gezinnen, huishoudelijke arbeid, slavernij, Verenigde Staten, 19e eeuw
- Description
- Behind every great man stands a great woman. And behind that great woman stands a slave. Or so it was in the households of the Founding Fathers from Virginia, where slaves worked and suffered throughout the domestic environments of the era, from Mount Vernon, Monticello, and Montpelier to the nation’s capital. American icons like Martha Washington, Martha Jefferson, and Dolley Madison were all slaveholders. This book examines the relationships that developed between the First Ladies and their slaves. For elite women and their families, slaves were more than an agricultural workforce: slavery was an entire domestic way of life that reflected and reinforced their status.