Mothers Of Invention: Women Of The Slaveholding South In The American Civil War

by Drew Gilpin Faust

2020-12-29 20:53:10

When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the ... Read more
When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. Drew Faust offers a compelling picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during this period of acute crisis, when every part of these women''s lives became vexed and uncertain.

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File size9.2 X 6.1 X 0.9 in
Print pages326
PublisherThe University Of North Carolina Press
Publication date October 25, 2004
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780807855737
Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University, where she also holds the Lincoln Professorship in History. Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2001 to 2007, she came to Har...

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