Southern Women and the Civil War

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Date: Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010 Time: 7:00-8:30 p.m. (EST) Registration Deadline: Sept. 30, 2010

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The Civil War destroyed the institution from which slaveholding women derived their status. It sent working class women into the streets to riot for bread, and the general deprivation it caused brought suffering to free and enslaved women alike. But, as all wars do, it thrust women into new roles and transformed their sense of themselves. They became victims, to be sure, but also managers and active partisans, some to advance the Confederate cause, others to sabotage it. How did Southern women, enslaved and free, experience the Civil War? How did it change their lives and their perspectives on themselves and on the South? Leader: Laura F. Edwards, Professor of History, Duke University; National Humanities Center Fellow