White, Deborah Gray : Rutgers the State University of New Jersey New Brunswick Campus
Deborah Gray White is professor of history and co-director of the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis at
Rutgers University. She is also the author of Too Heavy a Load.
Review
"Original and balanced. . . . [A] splendidly written book."
--Carl N. Degler, Stanford University
W.W. Norton and Company Web Site, April, 2001
Summary
This new edition reviews and updates the scholarship on slave women and the slave family, exploring new ways
of understanding the intersection of race and gender and comparing the myths that stereotyped female slaves with
the realities of their lives.
