Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War

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Label

Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War

Title remainder

women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War

Statement of responsibility

Drew Gilpin Faust

Creator

• Faust, Drew Gilpin

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Confederate States of America -- History
• Electronic books
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women
• Women -- Confederate States of America -- History

Language

eng

Summary

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

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

973.7/082

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies

Target audience

adult