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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

Featured Works

Rose's War and the Gendered Politics of a Slave Insurgency in the Civil War

Journal article Journal of the Civil War Era · December 2013 Featured Work Cite

River of Dark Dreams: Slavery and Empire in the Cotton Kingdom by Walter Johnson

Journal article Journal of American History · 2013 Featured Work Cite

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

Book · January 1, 2003 Featured Work 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