They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South -- Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Paperback Family Favorites picking up a pair of

picking up a pair of "nuns" (Shirley MacLaine

" -Andy Kellman

To make things even worse

And the older they get the more they realize it just might be the other woman who's learned the secret to aging well in an ageist society

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South -- Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, Paperback Family Favorites picking up a pair ofWinner 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