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 compellilng 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 beneficiary and victim of the social order of the Old South.

About the Author
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.

Reviews
"A remarkable portrait of upper-class Confederate women's wartime experience." - New York Review of Books"



Book Information
ISBN 9780807855737
Author Drew Gilpin Faust
Format Paperback
Page Count 326
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press
Weight(grams) 505g