Mothers Of Invention: Women Of The Slaveholding South In The American Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust
2020-12-29 16:23:10
Mothers Of Invention: Women Of The Slaveholding South In The American Civil War
by Drew Gilpin Faust
2020-12-29 16:23:10
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 ...
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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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