Böcker av Elizabeth R. Varon

The author challenges the historical assumption that women of Virginia were largely excluded from public life. Varon demonstrates that throughout the antebellum period, white Southern women of the slaveholding class were involved in politics through their presence at political meetings and rallies. In the GENDER AND AMERICAN CULTURE series.

Language has a profound power to shape political reality. In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. This title deals with the most provocative word in the political vocabulary of antebellum America.