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Georgia Women - Their Lives and Times

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Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Ann Clark (Editor) KATHLEEN ANN CLARK is associate professor of history at the University of Georgia and the author of Defining Moments: African American Commemoration and Political Culture in the South, 1863-1913 . Ann Short Chirhart (Editor) > Klappentext This first of two volumes extends from the founding of the colony of Georgia in 1733 up to the Progressive era. From the beginning, Georgia women were instrumental in shaping the state, yet most histories minimize their contributions. The essays in this volume include women of many ethnicities and classes who played an important role in Georgia's history. Though sources for understanding the lives of women in Georgia during the colonial period are scarce, the early essays profile Mary Musgrove, an important player in the relations between the Creek nation and the British Crown, and the loyalist Elizabeth Johnston, who left Georgia for Nova Scotia in 1806. Another essay examines the near-mythical quality of the American Revolutionera accounts of "Georgia's War Woman," Nancy Hart. The later essays are multifaceted in their examination of the way different women experienced Georgia's antebellum social and political life, the tumult of the Civil War, and the lingering consequences of both the conflict itself and Emancipation. After the war, both necessity and opportunity changed women's lives, as educated white women like Eliza Andrews established or taught in schools and as African American women like Lucy Craft Laney, who later founded the Haines Institute, attended school for the first time. Georgia Women also profiles reform-minded women like Mary Latimer McLendon, Rebecca Latimer Felton, Mildred Rutherford, Nellie Peters Black, and Martha Berry, who worked tirelessly for causes ranging from temperance to suffrage to education. The stories of the women portrayed in this volume provide valuable glimpses into the lives and experiences of all Georgia women during the first century anda half of the state's existence. Zusammenfassung The essays in the second volume of Georgia Women portray a wide array of Georgia women who played an important role in the state’s history, from little-known Progressive Era activists to famous present-day figures such as Pulitzer Prize–winning author Alice Walker and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter....

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Authors Ann Short (EDT)/ Clark Chirhart
Assisted by Ann Short Chirhart (Editor), Kathleen Clark (Editor), Kathleen Ann Clark (Editor)
Publisher The University of Georgia Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.07.2014
 
EAN 9780820337852
ISBN 978-0-8203-3785-2
Series Southern Women: Their Lives an
Southern Women: Their Lives an
Southern Women: Their Lives and Times
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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