Mothers of Invention

Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:The University of North Carolina Press

Published:25th Oct '04

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Mothers of Invention cover

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 compellilng 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. Faust chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once beneficiary and victim of the social order of the Old South.

"A remarkable portrait of upper-class Confederate women's wartime experience." - New York Review of Books"

ISBN: 9780807855737

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 505g

326 pages

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