Glymph's View Of Violence

Glymph does not view violence as an exception to slaveholding women’s conduct. She instead argues that “physical punishment seems to have occurred much more frequently between mistresses and slaves than between masters and slaves.” White slaveholding women used violence as a way to get black enslaved women to produce labor. Rather than engaging in proslavery ideals of paternalistic unity, Glymph asserts that “a kind of warring intimacy characterized many of the conflicts between mistresses and slave women in the household.” The stresses of the Civil War focused on Confederate women’s “status as slaveholder not simply on their predicament as helpless females,” and slaves’ “resistance to white women derived from a hatred of their position as