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Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War
Southern Stories Slaveholders in Peace and War Author:Drew Gilpin Faust Southern Stories is a collection of five essays of male slaveholders in peace and five essays of Confederate women in wartime that illustrate the interplay between ideas and reality, placing the slaveholders securely in the context of their own society. — The result is an historically grounded and intellectually sophisticated approach that ... more »is neither adversarial nor dismissive of differing viepoints. Drew Gilpin Faust is Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and writes about the South with affectionate understanding, but always with a sharp, critical eye.
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