IDOL, EQUAL, AND SLAVE: WHITE FEMALE IDENTITY AND WHITE MALE GUILT. A STUDY OF FEMALE ROLE DEFINITION IN THE ANTEBELLUM SOUTH

This study investigates the classic pro-slavery writings of the antebellum period in the Southern United States in order to determine and interpret white male attitudes regarding white women. The study finds that Southern spokesmen, in their effort to justify slave systems, developed an indige.