They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American SouthWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History: a bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy "Stunning." Rebecca Onion, Slate "Makes a vital contribution to our understanding of our past and present." Parul Sehgal, New York Times "Bracingly revisionist. . . . [A] startling corrective." Nicholas Guyatt, New York Review of Books Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American