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Mothers of Invention
Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust
The University of North Carolina Press · Print & ebook · October 25, 2004
Reading lane: Civil War Era
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.
At a Glance
Why This Clicks
Lives Under Strain
A close look at how war unsettled the work and responsibilities of slaveholding Southern women.
Come here for
- The upheaval of farms, family life, and plantation management
- A social history centered on women’s wartime responsibilities
Expect
- A portrait of more than half a million women
- Uncertainty across nearly every part of daily life
Book Details
- Authors
- Drew Gilpin Faust
- Publisher
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Published
- October 25, 2004
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Civil War Era · Southern U.S. History
- Reading lane
- Civil War Era
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Publisher Categories
Civil War Era
Women's Studies
About This Book
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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