Bondswomen's Work on the Cotton Frontier: Wagram Plantation, Arkansas

This essay attends to the work life of women on a plantation called Wagram, located on the Arkansas cotton frontier. Through an examination of this absentee-owned farm in one rugged corner of the Old Southwest, it uncovers women who faced challenges that differed from those faced on the classic cott...

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Published in:Agricultural history Vol. 89; no. 3; pp. 388 - 401
Main Author: Jones, Kelly Houston
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Durham Agricultural History Society 01.06.2015
Duke University Press, NC & IL
Subjects:
Agricultural history
Agriculture
Arkansas
Berries
Censuses
Cotton
Cotton industry
Crop yield
Crops
Family life
Farming methods
Farms
Female labour
Female roles
Gender
Labor
Men
Plantations
Politics
Population
Slave women
Slaves
U.S.A
Women
Women workers
Working life
United States > US
Arkansas
ISSN:0002-1482, 1533-8290
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Summary:This essay attends to the work life of women on a plantation called Wagram, located on the Arkansas cotton frontier. Through an examination of this absentee-owned farm in one rugged corner of the Old Southwest, it uncovers women who faced challenges that differed from those faced on the classic cotton plantation. This was most obvious in the role of women as prime workers of the crop, but includes gender politics that omitted the white planter family, and the meaning of space.
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ISSN:0002-1482
1533-8290
DOI:10.3098/ah.2015.089.3.388