A widowed woman managed a profitable farm using inherited enslaved people

Evidence

By 1860, the farm had grown to include the mansion and carriage house, twenty-nine enslaved people (including many that she inherited upon the death of her husband), slave quarters, hay sheds, and hen houses. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 63

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Slave labor displaced woman’s economic role and diverted the master’s tyranny onto her — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 167; Margaret Barber managed an estate that counted enslaved people among its property. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 63; Pioneer women routinely performed heavy agricultural field labor. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 195
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Slave labor displaced woman’s economic role and diverted the master’s tyranny onto her — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 167; Margaret Barber managed an estate that counted enslaved people among its property. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations: How Building a…, 63; Pioneer women routinely performed heavy agricultural field labor. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 195

Broader Connections

• Margaret Barber managed an estate that counted enslaved people among its property. #exemplifies (0.95) — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 63