We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (Gender and American Culture)

by ElizabethR.Varon (Author)

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  1998

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  The author challenges the historical assumption that women of Virginia were largely excluded from public life. Varon demonstrates that throughout the antebellum period, white Southern women of the slaveholding class were involved in politics through their presence at political meetings and rallies. In the GENDER AND AMERICAN CULTURE series.