Mothers of Invention Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
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.
HistoryUnited StatesCivil War Period (1850-1877)Social ScienceWomen's Studies
RELEASED2000
PUBLISHERThe University of North Carolina Press
LENGTH326
LANGUAGEENG
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Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian.
Mothers of Invention Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War
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.
HistoryUnited StatesCivil War Period (1850-1877)Social ScienceWomen's Studies
RELEASED2000
PUBLISHERThe University of North Carolina Press
LENGTH326
LANGUAGEENG
Catharine Drew Gilpin Faust (born September 18, 1947) is an American historian.
