Mothers of Invention
Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Civil War America (Paperback))
by Drew Gilpin Faust
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appears in Civil War, History, and Nonfiction.
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 halfmillion women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during thi...
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