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

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.

Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 06/01/2010
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.58lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.37d
ISBN: 9780807866160

About the Author
Faust, Drew Gilpin: - Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University. Her books includeSouthern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War and The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology and Identity in the Civil War South.