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

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

Drew Faust offers a compellilng picture of the more than half-million women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy, when every part of these women's lives became vexed and uncertain. Faust chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once beneficiary and victim of the social order of the Old South.

Product details

• Authors: Drew Gilpin Faust
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2004
• EAN: 9780807855737
• ISBN: 978-0-8078-5573-7
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Fred W. Morrison Series in Sou; Fred W. Morrison Series in Sou
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous