Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave‑owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands

本书连接了妇女史、南方史和非裔美国人的历史，对白人妇女在美国奴隶制中的作用进行了大胆的论证。历史学家斯蒂芬妮E。琼斯·罗杰斯利用各种资料表明，拥有奴隶的妇女是老练的经济行为者，她们直接参与南方的奴隶市场并从中受益。因为女性继承的奴隶通常比土地多，所以被奴役的人往往是她们财富的主要来源。白人妇女不仅经常拒绝把奴隶的所有权让给丈夫