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"Female slaveowners" as a book category groups works—both fiction and nonfiction—that focus on women who owned enslaved people and the social, legal, economic, and personal dynamics that surrounded their ownership. Titles in this category explore biographies and family histories, regional and legal studies, and imaginative reconstructions that interrogate how gender, race, class, inheritance and domestic authority shaped women’s roles in systems of bondage. Such books examine motivations and behaviors (from active management to absentee ownership), the experiences and resistance of the enslaved people under their control, and the moral and historical consequences of female participation in slavery, offering readers insight into a less-studied dimension of slavery’s power structures and its long-term legacies.

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