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Mothers of Invention

Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
By:Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press
Print ISBN:9780807855737
eText ISBN:9780807863329
Edition:1
Copyright:1996
Format:Page Fidelity

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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.

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