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ToolsFraser, Rebecca J. (2011) 'No more Sarah Hicks': A reconfiguration of antebellum time and space for an elite white woman. Slavery and Abolition, 32 (2). pp. 213-226. ISSN 1743-9523
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This article considers the life of Sarah Hicks, a young middle class woman born and raised in the cultural milieu of antebellum New York, who, in 1853, married Benjamin F. Williams, a physician and slaveholder from Greene County North Carolina. The article traces her literal journey across the Mason–Dixon line where she encountered southern ways of life that were, in the first instance, bewildering to her. Gender forms the primary focus of the article as Sarah moved from a northern gender ideal of true womanhood to that of the plantation mistress. Her search for a sense of belonging as a southerner suggests a period of transition in her life as she reconfigured what it meant to a woman, wife, and mother in the antebellum world of the slaveholding South.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of American Studies (former - to 2014) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > American Studies |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Burbidge |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2011 08:38 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Mar 2025 02:44 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/32616 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0144039X.2011.568233 |
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