Scarlett Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a dynamic history of the
South in the years leading up to and following the Civil War -- a
history that focuses on the women who made up the fabric of
southern life before and during the war and remade themselves and
their world after it.
Establishing the household as the central institution of
southern society, Edwards delineates the inseparable links between
domestic relations and civil and political rights in ways that
highlight women's active political role throughout the nineteenth
century. She draws on diaries, letters, newspaper accounts,
government records, legal documents, court proceedings, and other
primary sources to explore the experiences and actions of
individual women in the changing South, demonstrating how family,
kin, personal reputation, and social context all merged with
gender, race, and class to shape what particular women could do in
particular circumstances.
Meet Harriet Jacobs, the escaped slave who hid in a tiny,
unheated attic on her master's property for seven years until she
could free her children and herself. Marion Singleton Deveaux
Converse, the southern belle who leaped out a second-story window
to escape her second husband's "discipline" and received temporary
shelter from her slaves. Sarah Guttery, white, poor, unwed mother
of two, whose hard work and clean living earned her community's
respect despite her youthful transgressions. Aunt Lucy, who led her
fellow slaves in taking over her master's abandoned plantation and
declared herself the new mistress.
Through vivid portraits of these and other slaves, free blacks,
common whites, and the white elite, Edwards shows how women's
domestic situations determinedtheir lives before the war and their
responses to secession and armed conflict. She also documents how
women of various classes entered into the process of rebuilding and
how they asserted new rights and explored new roles after the
war.
An ideal basic text on society in the Civil War era, Scarlett
Doesn't Live Here Anymore demonstrates how women on every step of
the social ladder used the resources at their disposal to fashion
their own positive identities, to create the social bonds that
sustained them in difficult times, and to express powerful social
critiques that helped them make sense of their lives. Throughout
the period, Edwards shows, women worked actively to shape southern
society in ways that fulfilled their hopes for the future.
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