They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South (LA Times Book Prize Winner)

Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy

“Stunning.”—Rebecca Onion, Slate

“Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present.”—Parul Sehgal, New York Times

“Bracingly revisionist. . . . [A] startling corrective.”—Nicholas Guyatt, New York Review of Books

Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argume...