
Mothers of Invention
Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
Drew Gilpin Faust(Author)
The University of North Carolina Press
Published on 30. June 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
719 pages
978-0-8078-6616-0 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
1268 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8078-6616-0 (9780807866160)
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Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University. Her books include Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War, The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South, and This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.