Our Common Affairs: Texts from Women in the Old South
- ISBN-10
- 0801853079
- ISBN-13
- 9780801853074
- Category
- Southern States
- Pages
- 309
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Author
- Joan E. Cashin
Description
"Our Common Affairs examines the strong ties women developed among female kinfolk and friends; their troubled relations with slaves, especially female slaves; their frequent distaste for politics; and their mixed but largely fearful reaction to secession. The documents emphasize the pressing daily responsibilities these women faced and reveal their authors as flawed, complex human beings, wholly different from the stereotypes of Southern women that persist in the popular imagination."--BOOK JACKET.
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