Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War - Paperback

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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War - Paperback

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War - Paperback

by Drew Gilpin Faust
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9780807855737
Author Drew Gilpin Faust
PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press
GenreHistory and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2004
LanguageENG- English
Pages326
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War - Paperback

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War - Paperback

By Drew Gilpin Faust

About Drew Gilpin Faust

Drew Gilpin Faust is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, where she served as president from 2007 to 2018. Faust is the author of several previous books, including This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize and a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; and Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, which won the Francis Parkman Prize. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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