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The Failure of Our Fathers - Family, Gender, and Power in Confederate Alabama (Hardcover)
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The Failure of Our Fathers - Family, Gender, and Power in Confederate Alabama (Hardcover)
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An in-depth study of non-elite white families in Alabama-from the
state's creation through the end of the Civil War The Failure of
Our Fathers: Family, Gender, and Power in Confederate Alabama
examines the evolving position of non-elite white families in
Alabama during one of the most pivotal epochs in the state's
history. Drawing on a wide range of personal and public documents
reflecting the state's varied regions and economies, Victoria E.
Ott uses gender and family as a lens to examine the yeomanry and
poor whites, a constituency that she collectively defines as
"common whites," who identified with the Confederate cause. Ott
provides a nuanced examination of how these Alabamians fit within
the antebellum era's paternalistic social order, eventually
identifying with and supporting the Confederate mission to leave
the Union and create an independent, slaveholding state. But as the
reality of the war slowly set in and the Confederacy began to fray,
the increasing dangers families faced led Alabama's common white
men and women to find new avenues to power as a distinct
socioeconomic class. Ott argues that family provided the conceptual
framework necessary to understand why common whites supported a war
to protect slavery despite having little or no investment in the
institution. Going to war meant protecting their families from
outsiders who threatened to turn their worlds upside down. Despite
class differences, common whites envisioned the Confederacy as a
larger family and the state as paternal figures who promised to
protect its loyal dependents throughout the conflict. Yet, as the
war ravaged many Alabama communities, devotion to the Confederacy
seemed less a priority as families faced continued separations,
threats of death, and the potential for starvation. The construct
of a familial structure that once created a sense of loyalty to the
Confederacy now gave them cause to question its leadership. Ott
shows how these domestic values rooted in highly gendered concepts
ultimately redefined Alabama's social structure and increased class
distinctions after the war.
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