Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

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

The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies

Drew Gilpin Faust

326 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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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 t...

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