Jumat, 27 April 2018

CWT Book Review: Confederate Daughters

Confederate Daughters: Coming of Age During the Civil War by Victoria E. Ott, Southern Illinois University Press Victoria Ott examines the lives of teenage daughters of Southern slaveholding secessionist families from the late 1850s to the early 1870s, following 85 young women who left written records of their experiences during this transformational period. She explains …

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