They Were Her Property
| Author | Stephanie Jones-Rogers |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | History, women's studies, business & economics, 19th century, American-American studies |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
Publication date | February 19, 2019 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print & Digital |
| Pages | 296 (hardcover first edition) |
| Awards | Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Merle Curti Social History Award |
| ISBN | 9780300218664 |
| Website | https://www.stephaniejonesrogers.com/book |
They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South is a nonfiction history book by Stephanie Jones-Rogers. They Were Her Property is "the first extensive study of the role of Southern white women in the plantation economy and slave-market system" and disputes conventional wisdom that white women played a passive or minimal role in slaveholding. It was published by Yale University Press and released on February 19, 2019. For the book Jones-Rogers received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Merle Curti Social History Award from the Organization of American Historians.