A Family of Women: The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War

A Family of Women: The Carolina Petigrus in Peace and War
ISBN-10
0807825050
ISBN-13
9780807825051
Category
Social Science
Pages
328
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
UNC Press Books
Authors
Jane H. Pease, William Henry Pease

Description

"Ultimately, the failure of more than one-half of the third generation of Petigru women to marry shattered the family's continuity."--BOOK JACKET.

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