Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 1 ene 2004 - 326 páginas
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
 

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Chapter
9
Changed Households and Changing Lives
30
Confederate Women and Slavery
53
We Must Go to Work Too
80
Husbands and Wives
114
Single Women Courtship and Desire
139
Reading and Writing
153
Women and Religion
179
Confederate Women and Yankee Men
196
Confederate women and Yankee men in Savannah
199
Effects of General Order No 28
212
The Garb of Gender
220
Jeff Petticoats
229
Chapter Eleven
234
Aftermath of battle
250
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Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University. Her books includeSouthern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War and The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South.

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