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This book brings into sharp relief the way in which gender, race, slavery, and status shaped the lives of children in the American South before, during, and after the Civil War. She argues that the identities children developed in the antebellum era shaped their responses to the upheavals of the war years and their lives after the war's conclusion.
List of contents
Introduction: Confederate Childhoods
Chapter 1: Family and Identity: Growing Up in a Slave Society
Chapter 2: Taking Sides: Children's Perspectives on Slavery, Secession, and Civil War
Chapter 3: Play and Work: Continuity and Change in the Confederate South
Chapter 4: Refugees and Runaways: Dislocation and Opportunity in a War Zone
Chapter 5: Defeat and Freedom: The Reconstruction of Southern Childhood
Chapter 6: Memory and Meaning: Remembering Slavery and the Civil War
About the author
Anya Jabour is professor of history and co-director of women's and gender studies at the University of Montana, Missoula. She has also written Marriage in the Early Republic, Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children, and Scarlett's Sisters: Young Women in the Old South. She lives in Missoula, MT.
Summary
This book brings into sharp relief the way in which gender, race, slavery, and status shaped the lives of children in the American South before, during, and after the Civil War. She argues that the identities children developed in the antebellum era shaped their responses to the upheavals of the war years and their lives after the war's conclusion.
