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Civil War wives : the lives and times of Angelina Grimké Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant
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- ISBN: 9781400095780
- ISBN: 1400095786
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xiv, 361 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st Vintage Civil War Library ed.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2010.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-345) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Angelina Grimké Weld. "We are a nation of changes": America at the crossroads in the 1830s -- "I think much suffering awaits me": Angelina Grimké's journey to reform -- "Make me instrumental in the great work of emancipation": Angelina Grimké's letter to The liberator -- "This is all like a dream now; but I can't undream it": Angelina becomes an abolitionist -- "I laid my difficulty at the feet of Jesus": The burden of being a woman -- "You have had my whole heart": A season of surprises -- "We abolition women are turning the world upside down": Triumphs and retirement -- "I cannot tell thee how I love this private life": Angelina and domesticity -- "Innumerable, horrible, unspeakable, earthy, sensual and devilish distortions of married life": The crisis years at home -- This is not an in memoriam, it is a war-cry": The last years of Angelina Grimké. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | E 628 .B47 2010 | 30775305459449 | General Collection | Available | - |
Civil War Wives : The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis and Julia Dent Grant
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Civil War Wives : The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis and Julia Dent Grant
In these moving stories if Angelina Grimke Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day. Their stories, taken together, help reconstruct the era of the Civil War with a greater depth and complexity by adding women's experiences and voices to their male counterparts.
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