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

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 slaves. As southern women struggled "to do a man's business", t...

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Main Author: Faust, Drew Gilpin, (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1996]
Series:Fred W. Morrison series in Southern studies
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Call Number: E628 .F35 1996
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