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Women's Work, Men's Work The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia, and: Working Toward Freedom Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South (review)

Women's Work, Men's Work The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia, and:... Women's Work, Men's Work The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia , and: Working Toward Freedom Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South (review) LeeAnn Whites Southern Cultures, Volume 3, Number 3, 1997, pp. 92-94 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0009 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424350/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:09 GMT from JHU Libraries itor of southern progress: "We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what we gonna be, but thank God we ain't what we was." The southern experience is akin to that of no other region in America. Dis- pelling the myths concerning the history of the South can seem impossible with influences such as Gone With the Wind, the Dukes ofHazard, and Deliverance, yet The American South: Past, Present, and Future managed to engage and inspire the visitor to do just tiiat. The American South convincingly asserted that die region is not all moonlight and magnolias. With sustaining honesty and endearing optimism, the show did acknowledge, however, that a somewhat tragic and tumultuous past can still hold the guiding light for a promising and progressive future. Women's Work, Men's Work The Informal http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Women's Work, Men's Work The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia, and: Working Toward Freedom Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South (review)

Whites, LeeAnn
Southern Cultures , Volume 3 (3) – Jan 4, 2012
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Women's Work, Men's Work The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia , and: Working Toward Freedom Slave Society and Domestic Economy in the American South (review) LeeAnn Whites Southern Cultures, Volume 3, Number 3, 1997, pp. 92-94 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/scu.1997.0009 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/424350/summary Access provided at 18 Feb 2020 17:09 GMT from JHU Libraries itor of southern progress: "We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what we gonna be, but thank God we ain't what we was." The southern experience is akin to that of no other region in America. Dis- pelling the myths concerning the history of the South can seem impossible with influences such as Gone With the Wind, the Dukes ofHazard, and Deliverance, yet The American South: Past, Present, and Future managed to engage and inspire the visitor to do just tiiat. The American South convincingly asserted that die region is not all moonlight and magnolias. With sustaining honesty and endearing optimism, the show did acknowledge, however, that a somewhat tragic and tumultuous past can still hold the guiding light for a promising and progressive future. Women's Work, Men's Work The Informal

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