Love, Wages, Slavery : The Literature of Servitude in the United States
by
Barbara Ryan
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
025207775X
ISBN-13
9780252077753
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Imprint
University of Illinois Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 30th, 2010
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
400 grams
Dimensions
22.10 x 14.30 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
History of the AmericasModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900Slavery & abolition of slaveryGender studies: women and girlsGender studies: womenSociology: family & relationshipsSociology: family, kinship and relationshipsAnthropologyPhysical anthropologyHistoryHistory of the AmericasSlavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery
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Understanding the nature of "free" servitude in a time of slavery
As slavery tore at the nation in the nineteenth century, the role of servants and slaves within the family became a heated topic, and publishers produced a steady stream of literature instructing households how to hire, treat, and discipline servants. In this book, Barbara Ryan surveys an expansive collection of these published materials from both before and after Emancipation to chart shifts in thinking about what made a good servant and how servants felt about serving non-kin, as well as changing ideas about gender, free and unfree labor, status, race, domesticity, and family life.
Paying particular attention to women servants, Ryan traces the "servant problem" as it was represented in magazines like the Atlantic Monthly, Godey''s Lady''s Book, and Harper''s Bazar. Her wide-ranging probe also culls commentary from advice literature, letters and diaries, pro- and anti-slavery propaganda, sentimental fiction, and memoirs of communitarian reform to reveal the fundamental uncertainty about what it meant for some servants to be "free" while others remained fettered to their posts.
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