Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slave-Holding South in the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust

The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies

Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slave-Holding South in the American Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust

326 pages paperback 1996

4 editions

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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In the ante-bellum South, women from elite slaveholding families were raised to consider themselves not so much as " women" but as " ladies, " models of dependent femininity. But that ideal was to prove impossible to maintain during the social uph...

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