Introduction
In antebellum America, a woman’s sphere was generally thought to be on the home front. Thought by many to be the purer, fairer sex, women were looked at as weaker than —and therefore more dependent upon— men. Women in this time period were expected to be subordinate to male relatives (e.g. her father or husband), and, depending upon social class, were responsible either for cooking, cleaning, and keeping house, or for overseeing the servants (i.e. slaves) who performed these tasks…
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