Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household

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 victims of the same patriarchal system responsible for the oppression of the enslaved. Glymph challenges popular depictions of plantation mistresses as "friends" and "allies" of slaves and sheds light on the political importance of ostensible private struggles, and on the political agendas at work in framing the domestic as private and household relations as personal.

• Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
• Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South (Gender and American Culture)
• Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
• Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
• Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
• The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (African American)
• Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (Early American Studies)
• Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: (An African American Heritage Book)
• Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora