They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

The Shocking Truth About White Women in Slave Economy - A groundbreaking investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy, this book reveals a shocking truth that will challenge everything you thought you knew about slavery.

Drawing on a variety of sources, historian Stephanie E.

Jones-Rogers shows how white women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South's slave market.

They employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men and actively participated in the slave market, profiting from it and using it for economic and social empowerment.

This book forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America and is a must-read for anyone interested in American history.