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Women, Work, and Worship in Lincoln's Country - The Dumville Family Letters (Hardcover)
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Women, Work, and Worship in Lincoln's Country - The Dumville Family Letters (Hardcover)
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The Dumville family settled in central Illinois during an era of
division and dramatic change. Arguments over slavery raged.
Railroads and circuit-riding preachers brought the wider world to
the prairie. Irish and German immigrants flooded towns and
churches. Anne M. Heinz and John P. Heinz draw from an
extraordinary archive at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library
and Museum to reveal how Ann Dumville and her daughters Jemima,
Hephzibah, and Elizabeth lived these times. The letters tell the
story of Ann, expelled from her Methodist church for her unshakable
abolitionist beliefs; the serious and religious Jemima, a
schoolteacher who started each school day with prayer; Elizabeth,
enduring hard work as a farmer's wife, far away from the others;
and Hephzibah, observing human folly and her own marriage prospects
with the same wicked wit. Though separated by circumstances, the
Dumvilles deeply engaged one another with their differing views on
Methodism, politics, education, technological innovation, and
relationships with employers. At the same time, the letters offer a
rarely seen look at antebellum working women confronting privation,
scarce opportunities, and the horrors of civil war with unwavering
courage and faith.
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