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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