Analysis Of The Poem ' Defense Of The Confederate Ladies '

Madam C. J. Walker was born on December 23rd, 1867 as Sarah Breedlove, to Owen and Minerva Breedlove, who were former slaves enslaved to Robert W. Burney’s Madison Parish. She was the first of child born into freedom among her five siblings, after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. Her siblings included one older sister, Louvenia and four brethren: James, Solomon, Owen Jr. and Alexander. At six years of age, her mother passed away probably

Elizabeth Cochran, a.k.a. Nellie Bly was the first known female reporter. Bly's life spanned Reconstruction, the Victorian and Progressive Eras, the Great War, and its aftermath (Kroeger, 1996). And, even though there remains no fully organized collection of her life's personal or

Martha Jefferson and Mary Whitaker Edmondson, women born into the ever-changing America, were contemporaries of one another; living in a time where women had little say in who they were and how they were seen by society. For these two women life couldn’t have been more different. Matha, whose father was the well known and sought after Thomas Jefferson, lived life amongst the aristocrats and the elites while Mary lived the life of indentured servitude. Despite these varying levels of social class prestige, they weren’t that different from one another; both lacked control over how they fit into society, the power they possessed and their central beliefs and ideas. Both women were placed in the control of a male supervisor; whether it be a fatherly

The touchstone for understanding the wartime experience of Southern women begins with the understanding of the political landscape of the time. Historian Drew Gilpin Faust contends that in the context of nineteenth-century politics, “politics was regarded as a privilege and responsibility of men.” The acknowledgment that women and men existed in their separate spheres is the undoubtedly the most common theme in the arena of Women’s History. In addition to Faust, other prominent historians such as Mary Elizabeth Massey and Lisa Tendrich Frank, have contributed significant scholarship to the topic of Southern women and the Civil War. Massey in particular coined the idea that the war caused Southern women to “leap from their spheres.” While not all Southern women were eager to abandon their traditional spheres of domesticity that existed within their households, women could not resist maneuvering their way into the male sphere of politics. In a diary entry from April 1861, Catherine Edmondston of North Carolina asserted that women’s involvement in politics was unavoidable because the nation was in such great upheaval, “public affairs absorbed all interest.” In an

In the 1870s, they built a third home for Mary Chesnut, which they called Sarsfield, which was specifically in her name. In 1884, her mother and her husband died within three weeks of each other. In her last years, Chesnut was alone and only had Sarsfield as a land possession, so she began to think of writing in order to earn money. she began to organize her diary for publication. She corrected a lot of her writing with the desire to publish it, so it is difficult to determine whether or not she really hated slavery or if she changed it after the war was over. Overall, it did seems as thoough Chesnut had long felt the way she had in 1861: "I wonder if it be a sin to think slavery a curse to any land. Sumner said not one word of this hated institution which is not true. Men and women are punished when their masters and mistresses are brutes, not when they do wrong-and then we live surrounded by prostitutes. An abandoned woman is sent out of any decent house elsewhere. Who thinks any worse of a Negro or mulatto woman for being a thing we can’t name? God forgive us, but ours is a monstrous system, a wrong and an iniquity" (Chesnut, p. 29). The diary of Mary Chesnut, a remarkable account of the Civil War from the point of view of a southern woman, slave holder, and plantation owner, was published in 1905 under the title A Diary from

In American history there have been many truly extraordinary women. These women range from all different time periods, races and other backgrounds. Over the years women have participate or become involved in multiple different themes including: politics, midwives or physicians, inventors, literary or arts figures, feminists, suffrage or equal rights activist, wealthy women, academics, fighters- physical or metaphorical etc. This paper will exemplify three special women, all the while providing background, some life achievements and details of their last years. These women are Ida Wells, Isabella Baumfree (A.K.A Sojourner Truth) and Harriet Tubman. All African American abolitionist who fought endlessly for the civil rights owed to them as Americans, free citizens and humans.

I see some truth in the stereotype of the South as the land of beautiful southern belles but it’s not entirely true. The south is very diverse, and not all women in the south are pretty southern belles. There might have been a large population of them, but they all aren’t beautiful. However, with that being said every women is beautiful in her own way. Some might be more gorgeous than others but those others might have beautiful in other ways including attitudes. Also“aristocratic planters” were noble entitled people who did not actually plant the crops The “superstitious fieldhands” did the planing.

Mary Boykin Chesnut was born March 31, 1823 in Stateburg, South Carolina. She was an American diarist and writer during the Civil War was in session. Her birth name was Mary Boykin Miller, oldest daughter of Mary Boykin Miller and Stephen Decatur Miller. The Miller family was a wealthy owner of a plantation. Plantation had a large farm with resident workers and slaves. Her father was a politician who supported states` rights over the national government and set their own policies and having the power to legalize slavery. Her family and she moved from South Carolina to capital city of Columbia and then returned to Camden.

Work, Family and Faith, was edited to provide readers with an accessible introduction to the multiplicity of lives that constructed the supposedly homogenous group of “rural Southern women”. Oral histories of rural southern women blend to reveal narratives about the region and nation that were silent in the historiography. Following in the steps of Tera Hunter, Walker and Sharpless accentuated how vital women were to the construction of Southern history and society. They even touched upon the experiences of rural African American women, often over-looked in the historiography due

Historical narrative nonfiction writer, Karen Abbott presented her lecture entitled “Civil War Female Spies” on March 22, 2016. She is a New York Times bestselling author of Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy, which was named one of the best books of 2014 by Library Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and Amazon, and was optioned by Sony for a miniseries. She has written for the New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian magazine, Salon and other publications, making her a very distinguished expert in her field. In her lecture, Abbott discussed the achievements of four female spies that had major contributions in the war.

For the duration of the civil war, many women decided to disguise themselves as men and enlist into the army. The reasons women joined the army has a wide variation which spans across love, patriotism, or the want for adventure. (Smith) One woman, Amy Clark, joined the war in order to fight alongside her husband. Clark was so determined that she kept on fighting even after her husband had been killed. (Chang) Women were most often discovered when they were injured and needed to be examined by a doctor. (Smith) Nonetheless, these women fought bravely to stand up among the men in order to fight for what they believed in. Unfortunately, out of the estimated 400 to 750 women who fought in the war, only one received a veteran’s pension. (Smith) Although this may be true, it indeed is a grave injustice because those courageous women deserved recognition. Among the women who decided to serve as soldiers were those who choose to be spies. An example of a prominent female spy was Elizabeth Van Lew, more famously known as Crazy Betsy. Living in Richmond, the Confederate capital, Betsy would collect information from hearing the confederates talk around her. With this in mind, whenever she gathered information she would send it to the Union for their purposes. Not only did she spy for the Union, but she also hid union soldiers in her home. (Chang) The work that Betsy did to assist the Union was truly

As you know the Civil War was fought in several different places. The Civil War that took place in our country revealed a great deal of things about our, at the time, young and growing nation. We had seen a country divided by ethics as well a catastrophic loss of life in war that had not been seen previously. Over 620,000 soldiers died from combat, accidents, starvation, and disease. However, one thing that stood out was the role that women played during this period of time. Around then, a lady’s part was not to be an officer. They were relied upon to be educators, cooks, young overseers, and cooks. Outside of serving as nurses and relief workers, women would don male disguises in order to make it to the frontlines as soldiers. Another outlying result in women doing this is the disruption in the gender roles that people, at the time, had seemed to be accustomed to. With this and other things in mind, women played a very notable and crucial role during the time that the Civil War took place.

At a young age she experienced her mother’s death but she didn’t let that take away from her focus on writing. Her most famous book was titled Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which Abraham Lincoln believed to be the start of the Civil war. Later in life she had married and had a son. Although she found it very hard to raise a son and still keep up on her daily writing she somehow managed. She managed to raise her son with the help of a friend and keep up on her

After the south lost the civil war, slavery was abolished, and the south wanted something to hold the old south’s views in. The Southern Belle was a woman who was practically perfect in all aspects. She was pretty, smart but not too smart, nice, and domestic liked to clean and liked to dress up nice. She was a representation of the old south in the southern men minds. Ladies were supposed to live by the men’s word, but most of all if a man was not up to society’s standards he was a threat to the woman. “Ladies seemed to live in faint horror of men, seemed unwilling to approve wholeheartedly of them. But I liked them. There was something about them that, no matter how much they cussed and drank and gambled and chewed; no matter how undetectable

Also, what is interesting is the similarities of their grammatical writing styles. As Walker describes the women of the post-Reconstruction South, she uses many literary devices. One abnormally short paragraph, "Our mothers and grandmothers, some of them moving to music not yet written. And they waited" (Walker 695), which seems very incorrect as far as grammar is concerned, leaves me as a reader puzzled at why she writes this paragraph so isolated. It has some meaning to it without a doubt. "Moving to music not yet written" is a powerful way to stress how ahead of their time some of these women