Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War
- ISBN-10
- 0826208657
- ISBN-13
- 9780826208651
- Category
- Confederate States of America
- Pages
- 252
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Missouri Press
- Author
- Drew Gilpin Faust
Description
Stories were collective, as in the case of the antebellum proslavery argument or Confederate discourses about women. Sometimes they were personal, as in the private writings of figures such as Lizzie Neblett, Mary Chesnut, Thornton Stringfellow, or James Henry Hammond. These men and women regularly employed their pens to create coherence and order amid the tangled circumstances of their particular lives and within a context of social prescriptions and expectations.
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