Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust (Author)
When Confederate men marched off to battle, white women across the South confronted unaccustomed and unsought responsibilities: directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. As southern women struggled "to do a man's business," they found themselves compelled to reconsider their most fundamental assumptions about their identities and about the larger meaning of womanhood. 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
Print Book, English, c1996
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, c1996
History
xvi, 326 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9780807822555, 9780807855737, 0807822558, 0807855731
1057969707
Electronic reproduction., EBL, Available via World Wide Web
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