About the Book

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. Faust chronicles the clash of the old and the new within a group that was at once the beneficiary and the victim of the social order of the Old South.

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 326 pages

Language: English

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press (Sep. 30th, 2004)

ISBN-10: 0807855731

ISBN-13: 9780807855737

Dimensions: 6.14 x 9.28 x 0.81 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.09 lbs

• Categories: Civil War United States History General Women's Studies