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Emma Spaulding Bryant - Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger's Wife, Ardent Feminist: Letters 1860-1900 (Paperback)
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Emma Spaulding Bryant - Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger's Wife, Ardent Feminist: Letters 1860-1900 (Paperback)
Series: Reconstructing America
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Emma Spaulding's life might have been the simple story of a
nineteenth-century woman in rural Maine. Instead, wooed by the
ambitious John Emory Bryant, the Yankee Reconstruction activist and
Georgia politician, she became the Civil War bride of a Republican
carpetbagger intent on reforming the South. The grueling years in
the shadow of her husband's controversial political career gave her
a backbone of steel and the convictions of an early feminist. Emma
supported John's agenda-to "northernize" the South and work for
civil rights for African-Americans- and frequently reflected on
national political events. Struggling virtually alone to rear a
daughter in near poverty, Emma became an independent thinker,
suffragist, and officer in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
In eloquent letters, Emma coached her husband's understanding of
"the woman question;" their remarkable correspondence frames a
marriage of love and summarizes John's career as it determined the
contours of Emma's own storyafrom the bitter politics of
Reconstruction Georgia to her world as a mother, writer, editor,
and teacher in Tennessee and, with her husband, running a mission
for the homeless in New York.In this extraordinary resource, Ruth
Douglas Currie organizes and edits their voluminous correspondence,
enhancing the letters with an extensive introduction to Emma
Spaulding Bryant's life, times, and legacy.
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