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

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

The Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies

Drew Gilpin Faust

352 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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A New York Times Notable Book of the YearWinner of the Francis Parkman PrizeWinner of the Avery Craven PrizeIn the ante-bellum South, women from elite slaveholding families were raised to consider themselves not so much as "women" but as "ladies,"...

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