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.

Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 10/25/2004
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9780807855737
ISBN10: 0807855731
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Social Science | Women's Studies