Gender Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America Genders and Sexualities in History

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Gender Race and Family in Nineteenth Century America

Genders and Sexualities in History

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Chronicles the life of Sarah F. Williams (née Hicks), who was born in New Hartford, NY, educated at the Albany Academy, and then married a plantation owner from North Carolina, who subsequently moved to Georgia. The story is told on the basis of letters she wrote to her parents and sisters from 1853 through the Civil War to 1917.