Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)

Type

Book

Authors

Drew Gilpin Faust

ISBN 10

0807855731

ISBN 13

9780807855737

Tags

Campaigns & Battlefields, Confederacy, Women, Women in History, Women's Studies, United States, Gender Studies

Description

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. - from Amzon

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