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Thavolia Glymph

Thavolia Glymph

Peabody Family Distinguished Professor of History
History
thavolia@duke.edu
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708
224 Classroom Building, Box 90719, 1356 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Books

The Women's Fight The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation

Book · November 27, 2019 —DaviD W. Blight, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom “In the burgeoning literature on women and the Civil War, The Women's Fight is unique both because of the scope of its argument and the depth ... ... Cite

Out of the house of bondage: The transformation of the plantation household

Book · January 1, 2003 Featured Publication This book views the plantation household as a site of production where competing visions of gender were wielded as weapons in class struggles between black and white women. Mistresses were powerful beings in the hierarchy of slavery rather than powerless v ... Full text Cite