Cover Page -- Within the Plantation Household -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1 Southern Women, Southern Households -- 2 The View from the Big House -- 3 Between Big House and Slave Community -- 4 Gender Conventions -- 5 The Imaginative Worlds of Slaveholding Women -- 6 Women Who Opposed Slavery -- 7 And Women Who Did Not -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.