Mothers of Invention

As Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women navigated new responsibilities: managing farms and plantations, providing for families, and controlling increasingly restive enslaved people. Drew Faust examines the experiences of over half a million women from Confederate slaveholding families during this acute crisis, which profoundly upended their lives.

Archival Categorization Notes

This literature has been indexed under the primary pillar of American Civil War. It was manually vetted for the Read For Truth database because it provides educational insights into Beyond the Combat, assisting researchers in locating established secondary research within this specific taxonomy.