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From Sanctified Love to Lard and Sausages: Loula Kendall Rogers From Sanctified Love to Lard and Sausages: Loula Kendall Rogers
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“The Most Eventful Day of My Life”: the Wedding and Its Meaning “The Most Eventful Day of My Life”: the Wedding and Its Meaning
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“I Bid Farewell to My Native Land”: New Homes and New Roles “I Bid Farewell to My Native Land”: New Homes and New Roles
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“To Perform The Duties of a Housekeeper”: Going to Housekeeping “To Perform The Duties of a Housekeeper”: Going to Housekeeping
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“The Cares of a Southern Household”: Power and Privilege “The Cares of a Southern Household”: Power and Privilege
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“I Am as Much in Love as Ever”: Positive Assessments of Marriage “I Am as Much in Love as Ever”: Positive Assessments of Marriage
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“The Days of Romance & Illusions Are over”: Negative Assessments of Marriage “The Days of Romance & Illusions Are over”: Negative Assessments of Marriage
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“Matrimony Is … a Perfect State of Servitude”: the Power of Love “Matrimony Is … a Perfect State of Servitude”: the Power of Love
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“The Discharge of My Duties”: Love and Duty “The Discharge of My Duties”: Love and Duty
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Abstract
Young women who accepted a subordinate role in marriage were taking an important step toward accepting the inferior status assigned to elite women in the Old South during the nineteenth century. For many southern women, the wedding day would prove to be a threshold between a culture of resistance and one of resignation, as well as a transition from the relative freedom of girlhood to the responsibilities of married life, from housekeeping to living where and how their husbands wished. This chapter examines the experience of many young wives in the antebellum South after an extended period of delaying, contemplating, and preparing for marriage. More specifically, it considers the tendency of young women in the Old South to resign themselves to their destiny as they entered the bonds of matrimony. The chapter focuses on the transformations experienced by Loula Kendall Rogers, an incurable romantic who lamented the exchange of sanctified love for “lard and sausages” in the rural Georgia home she shared with her husband. It also highlights the role of slave labor in southern housekeeping.
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