Neither Lady nor Slave : Working Women of the Old South Book

	Introduction	1
Pt. 1	The Rural World and the Coming of the Market Economy
1	Dollars Never Fail to Melt their Hearts: Native Women and the Market Revolution	15
2	Made by the Hands of Indians: Cherokee Women and Trade	34
3	Producing Dependence: Women, Work, and Yeoman Households in Low-Country South Carolina	55
Pt. 2	Wage-Earning Women in the Urban South
4	A White Woman, of Middle Age, Would Be Preferred: Children's Nurses in the Old South	75
5	Spheres of Influence: Working White and Black Women in Antebellum Savannah	102
6	Patient Laborers: Women at Work in the Formal Economy of West(ern) Virginia	121
Pt. 3	Women as Unacknowledged Professionals
7	Depraved and Abandoned Women: Prostitution in Richmond, Virginia, across the Civil War	155
8	The Female Academy and Beyond: Three Mordecai Sisters at Work in the Old South	174
9	Peculiar Professionals: The Financial Strategies of the New Orleans Ursulines	198
10	Faith and Frugality in Antebellum Baltimore: The Economic Credo of the Oblate Sisters of Providence	221
Pt. 4	Working Women in the Industrial South
11	I Can't Get My Bored on Them Old Lomes: Female Textile Workers in the Antebellum South	249
12	To Harden a Lady's Hand: Gender Politics, Racial Realities, and Women Millworkers in Antebellum Georgia	261
13	Invisible Woman: Female Labor in the Upper South's Iron and Mining Industries	285
	Contributors	309
	Index	311