Mothers of invention : women of the slaveholding South in the American Civil War /

This study offers an insight into the lives of the women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. It describes how they had to direct farms and plantations, provide for families and supervise increasingly restive slaves.

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Main Author: Faust, Drew Gilpin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1996.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:0807863327
9780807863329
0807866164
9780807866160
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:This study offers an insight into the lives of the women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. It describes how they had to direct farms and plantations, provide for families and supervise increasingly restive slaves.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 326 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-312) and index.
Language Note:English.
Series:Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies.
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