Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Title | Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 1996 |
Authors | Faust, Drew Gilpin |
Number of Pages | 326 |
Publisher | University of North Carolina Press |
City | Chapel Hill |
Abstract | When Confederate men marched off to battle, white women across the South confronted unaccustomed and unsought responsibilities: directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive enslaved people. As southern women struggled "to do a man's business," they found themselves compelled to reconsider their most fundamental assumptions about their identities and about the larger meaning of womanhood. 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. [UNC Chapel Hill] |
Short Title | Mothers of Invention |
Reprint Edition | 2004; 2007; 2010 |
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