Grander In Her Daughters: Florida's Women During The Civil War - Hardcover

Revels, Tracy J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1570035598 ISBN 13: 9781570035593

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr, 2004

Synopsis

Although the women of Florida suffered Civil War traumas and privations commensurate with women throughout the Confederacy, few of their experiences have become part of the historical record, With Grander in Her Daughters Florida's Women during the Civil War Tracy J. Revels rescues from neglect these women and the challenges they faced. Drawing largely on primary source discoveries. Revels recounts the experiences of wives and widows, Unionists and secessionists, black females slaves and their plantation mistresses, business owners and refugees. Revels finds that no matter their political allegiance, these women lived dual lives, divided in their loyalties between what they often perceived as the competing interests of their nation and their families.

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"The story of women in Civil War Florida is either untold or mythologized. In this finely crafted and engaging social portrait of Florida’s women during the Civil War, Tracy J. Revels fills this void. Revels’s compelling narrative, drawn largely from underutilized manuscript materials, offers general readers and scholars vivid images of Florida’s Civil War home front through the eyes of its women."—James M. Denham, Department of History, Florida Southern College, and coeditor of Echoes from a Distant Frontier: The Brown Sisters’ Correspondence from Antebellum Florida

"This major book in Florida history utilizes new and familiar primary sources and the latest printed scholarship. Tracy J. Revels has fashioned an objective, balanced, and well written account of women in Florida during the Civil War. With an impressive mastery of quotes, she details the lives of plantation, middle class, cracker, pro-Unionist, and slave women. The fascinating work highlights their common concerns and highlights their differences in a convincing way."—William Warren Rogers, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Florida State University

About the Author

Tracy J. Revels is an associate professor of history at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1570035598
• ISBN 13: 9781570035593
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 205