Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies) - Hardcover

Faust, Drew Gilpin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807822558 ISBN 13: 9780807822555

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

"Faust has the sensibility that I most admire in a historian: the capacity to enter imaginatively into a world very different from our own and to write about it with understanding and sympathy even when we find that world morally abhorrent."--Gordon S. Wood, The Wall Street Journal

From the Inside Flap:

Exploring privileged Confederate women's wartime experiences, this book chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0807822558
• ISBN 13: 9780807822555
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 326