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An 1832 study, which included an account of the last great debates on slavery held in the Virginia legislature, argued that the institution served gloriously to lift woman to a new and fitting station: We behold the marked effects of slavery on the conditions of womanwe find her at once elevated, clothed with all her charms, mingling with and directing the society to which she belongs, no longer the slave but the equal and the idol of man. There is a more insidious element in this elevation of a new idol than can be explained by the transfer of labor from wife to slave, and it is an element that Margaret Mitchell delicately but quite certainly meant to address, or, rather, to dismiss, by her repeated epithets for the admirable slaves of Tara

Step into the spotlight with Mery

Model and artist Kara Markley Sterling

Think of it as a more flirtatious and dramatic version of the A-line

She wears black shoes, gold jewelry, and a gold accent on the neck strap draws attention to the bare back