Women Of The American Civil War

The women of southern plantations are something that not many write about. There is a critical lack of information and books about them, which makes writing about her a difficult task. Many southern women are mentioned in many books only as part of the males. “It was not until the early 1970’s, with the advent of the women’s movement, that a book written by a Southern woman about Southern women was recognized as being of scholarly significance…”

White wanted to “Enrich our knowledge of antebellum black culture and serve as a chapter in the unwritten history of the American black woman” (White). The author utilizes previous publicize scholarly books and slave narratives to compile the history of a group of women white says is a “womanhood that celebrated heroism, but accepted frailty” (White) this 244-page book identifies with an audience who want to connect with the past experiences of the Black woman. Ar’nt I a woman is made up of 6 chapters that deal with everything from the myth between jezebel and mammy

The title of this book comes from the inspiring words spoken by Sojourner Truth at the 1851, nine years prior to the Civil War at a Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. In Deborah Grays White, Ar’n’t I a woman her aim was to enrich the knowledge of antebellum black women and culture to show an unwritten side of history of the American black woman. Being an African- American and being a woman, these are the two principle struggles thrown at the black woman during and after slavery in the United States. Efforts were made by White scholars in 1985 to have a focus on the female slave experience. Deborah Gray White explains her view by categorizing the hardships and interactions between the female slave and the environment in which the

After four years of seemingly endless battle between a divided nation, more than 600,000 people were killed. These lives, however, were not given in vain. Had it not been for the American Civil War, abolition may not have been carried out. The nation might have remained divided. Women might have remained confined to their roles as the "homemakers." Although the Civil War was fought in hopes of preserving the nation and ridding it of slavery, another war raged on within the depths of this war--the women's war. Serving as nurses both in the hospital and on the battlefields, women came to know a whole

In Chapter 3, Berkin explains some challenges that women faced. She explains that during this time, “war would bring problems of inflation, scarcity, and the threat of physical violence” (page 27). Women had to take charge of family businesses and for their kids since they were left alone by their husbands during the war. In Chapter 7, Berkin writes about the challenges that Native American women faced. The Native Americans wanted to conserve their way of life, and to do so they “believed that an alliance with the British” was the best thing to do (page 107). Because the British were defeated, the Native American way of life turned out to be the resemblance of the American way of life. In Chapter 8, Berkin describes the troubles that African American women faced. African American women had the “dream of freedom” so they joined the British army in hopes that they would gain their independence as well (page 120). Conditions worsened for these women for most of them were still slaves. The book demonstrates the challenges that women faced during the

In this short paper, we will speak about the role women had in society in the antebellum south and how it was affected.

This paper discusses the experiences of African American Women under slavery during the Slave Trade, their exploitation, the secrecy, the variety of tasks and positions of slave women, slave and ex-slave narratives, and significant contributions to history. Also, this paper presents the hardships African American women faced and the challenges they overcame to become equal with men in today’s society. Slavery was a destructive experience for African Americans especially women. Black women suffered doubly during the slave era.

The civil war began early in the spring of 1861 after the South’s secession from the Union and ended during the same season four years later in 1865. Though the war lasted for a rather short amount of time, for the ones it affected it seemed to be never-ending. The impact that the war had on Southerners was rather traitorous, them being the ones who suffered most. Many men lost their homes and property while many, many more men lost their lives fighting for them. There were many types of Southerners in 1861, the war affecting all of them differently, with some of the richer and higher members of society having an easier time both before and after the war. One amazing author, Margret Mitchell, created an in depth story of a southern-belle

The Civil War were extremely affected the lives of American women. Many handful are disguised as men and jointed the fight, over served aspies and nurses. Many women took the role at home after their husband , brother, and father, were at the war. Thousands of women were enslaved began transition to freedom, beginning new lives surrounded by the war.

For ladies and men on the home front, the Civil War exhibited a large group of difficulties and a wide assortment of encounters. A few difficulties were comparative—if not shared similarly—in both the North and the South. At the point when men went off to battle for either armed force, those left behind needed to adapt to the passionate or material strains of partition. Both the victors and the vanquished grieved thousands who kicked the bucket, and every armed force approached its regular people to bolster the war exertion and help the injured. Certain issues weighed most vigorously on the South. As the Northern economy thrived, Southerners battled with deficiencies and swelling. Just a couple of Northern people group endured the demolition and outrages of foe occupation, though such encounters were typical in the Confederacy. What 's more, whatever the strains of war, the encounters differed by, sexual orientation, and class.

Women were considered frail, unintelligent, and unable to make decisions in eighteen-hundredths America. It was traditional wisdom that a woman’s place was in the home. The Civil War marked a turning point for women and their role in society. Through my research consisting of books, letters, speeches, and articles, I will tell the story of a time in America when women rose to satisfy the needs of the country when most men were away fighting the war. This essay will analyze the roles of women in eighteen-hundredths America, by evaluating how women’s roles had changed; they now were nurses, soldiers/spies, and public workers/activists.

The war brought new changes to the South and women often found themselves in new forms of employments. “Southern women assumed new roles during the Civil War, ranging from nursing to managing plantations.” The majority of employments that were commonly seen for women in the South during the Civil War included teaching, government jobs, nurses, and plantation workers. The majority of women in the Southern states found themselves taking care of and managing plantations. Females took care of crops and all rural work while men were away. Letters of females living in Indiana reveal information about their everyday

In her book Southern Horrors Women and the Politics of Rape and Lynching, Crystal Feimster aims to show the importance of southern women in the fight for women’s right during and after the civil war. This book tells the story of Ida B. Wells and Rebecca Latimer Felton as well as the hundreds of other southern women who campaigned against rape and lynching and championed for women’s rights. Feimster narrative focuses on both Wells and Felton because they were pioneers of their time in southern women’s empowerment after the war.

During the antebellum South, many Africans, who were forced migrants brought to America, were there to work for white-owners of tobacco and cotton plantations, manual labor as America expanded west, and as supplemental support of their owner’s families. Harriet Jacobs’s slave narrative supports the definition of slavery (in the South), discrimination (in the North), sexual gender as being influential to a slave’s role, the significant role of family support, and how the gender differences viewed and responded to life circumstances.

On the other hand, Southern women such as Dolly Lunt Burge, found themselves weighing the benefits and downsides of slavery during wartime. Privately, Burge avowed that she had never felt that “slavery was altogether right,” because it was “abused by many.” Burge felt that if the South was defeated then that would be “in the hands of a merciful God.” Her conception was that if the Confederacy was going to met its demise, then that was God’s way of showing the South was in the wrong for their dealings with secession and slavery. Aside from the biblical annotations Southern women employed with their increasingly ambivalent views on slavery, there was also the burden of the responsibility of slaves. For many Southern slaveholding women, the shift into the role as master that their husbands once held proved more difficult as the war raged on. Since slavery in the pre-war South was a peculiar and patriarchal structure, it was impossible for women to fulfill the duties of slave master. This is not to say they did not try, and here we see the most significant burden thrust on the Southern woman. Plantation mistresses enjoyed a life of relative leisure during the pre-war years, as their main responsibility was to maintain the household and oversee the slaves who worked