Kelly Lehtola’s Reviews > They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South > Status Update
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Things I’ve learned so far:
- Southern women were gifted enslaved people, and trained into being owners.
- Marriage settlements in the south acted as modern day prenups for families/women that owned many enslaved people/property, because if they didn’t they immediately became the husbands property after marriage and could be sold to pay off his debt.
— Jan 13, 2026 07:16AM
- Southern women were gifted enslaved people, and trained into being owners.
- Marriage settlements in the south acted as modern day prenups for families/women that owned many enslaved people/property, because if they didn’t they immediately became the husbands property after marriage and could be sold to pay off his debt.
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I didn’t know wet nurses were a thing so that’s crazy
— Jan 15, 2026 07:17PM
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Medical schools purchased dead enslaved people’s bodies for research purposes, allowing owners to profit even more after their deaths of their property.
— Jan 15, 2026 07:30AM
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White women’s status as slave owners was wildly respected by southern society, and when it wasn’t, state and federal courts upheld it.
— Jan 15, 2026 07:10AM
