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North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (Southern Women: Their Lives and Times)
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Paperback. Editor(s): Gillespie, Michele. Series: Southern Women : Their Lives and Times. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white halftones, maps. BIC Classification: HBJK; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women - women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; and Edith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds, elite women who promoted women’s equality. This collection of essays examines the lives and times of pathbreaking North Carolina women from the late eighteenth century into the early ... Read more
North Carolina has had more than its share of accomplished, influential women - women who have expanded their sphere of influence or broken through barriers that had long defined and circumscribed their lives, women such as Elizabeth Maxwell Steele, the widow and tavern owner who supported the American Revolution; Harriet Jacobs, runaway slave, abolitionist and author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; and Edith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds, elite women who promoted women’s equality. This collection of essays examines the lives and times of pathbreaking North Carolina women from the late eighteenth century into the early ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Southern Women : Their Lives and Times
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820340005
SKU
V9780820340005
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About
Michele Gillespie is a professor of history at Wake Forest University. She is author or coeditor of ten previous books, including Katharine and R. J. Reynolds: Partners of Fortune in the Making of the New South (Georgia) and Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789–1860 (Georgia). Sally G. McMillen is the Mary Reynolds Babcock ... Read more
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