Mothers of Invention
Mothers of Invention
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This study offers an insight into the lives of the women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. It describes how they had to direct farms and plantations, provide for families and supervise increasingly restive slaves.
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Mothers of Invention by Drew Gilpin Faust
This study offers an insight into the lives of the women who belonged to the slaveholding families of the Confederacy during the American Civil War. It describes how they had to direct farms and plantations, provide for families and supervise increasingly restive slaves.
Drew Gilpin Faust is president of Harvard University, where she also holds the Lincoln Professorship in History. Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study from 2001 to 2007, she came to Harvard after twenty-five years on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of five previous books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, which won the Francis Parkman Prize and the Avery Craven Prize. She and her husband live in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780807822555 |
| ISBN 10 | 0807822558 |
| Title | Mothers of Invention |
| Author | Drew Gilpin Faust |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Year published | 1996-03-30 |
| Number of pages | 326 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |