TY - JOUR
AU1 - Moore, James Tice
AB - Book Reviews ful distinction between house servants, who role as a temporary prisoner of the United were closest to their mistresses both socially States Navy in the Trent affair of November and spatially, and domestic producers, who 1861. His biographer, Robert W. Young, con­ worked alternately in the house and in the vincingly demonstrates that Mason's signifi­ fields; the experience of field workers, who cance extended beyond that well-publicized were the vast majority of female slaves, is be­ episode. yond the scope of her study. Weiner clearly Grandson of George Mason of Gunston demonstrates that many mistresses, influenced Hall, James M. Mason absorbed the values of by a southern version of the ideology of do­ the Tidewater gentry during his boyhood in mesticity and ideals of virtuous womanhood, northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. Ed­ showed benevolence toward their most famil­ ucated at the University of Pennsylvania and iar dependents and that some were ambivalent at the College of William and Mary, he mar­ toward-though ultimately supportive of­ ried into a socially prominent Philadelphia the institution of slavery. family and, after moving to the Shenandoah Her assertion that slave women felt affec­ Valley town of Winchester, began to practice tion 
TI - Senator James Murray Mason: Defender of the Old South. By Robert W. Young. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. xviii, 288 pp. $38.00, ISBN 0-87049-998-X.)
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/2568321
DA - 1999-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/senator-james-murray-mason-defender-of-the-old-south-by-robert-w-young-HCObwHSmUX
SP - 1597
EP - 1598
VL - 85
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -