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Anne Heinz - Women, Work, and Worship in Lincoln´s Country: The Dumville Family Letters - 9780252039959 - V9780252039959
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Women, Work, and Worship in Lincoln´s Country: The Dumville Family Letters

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Description for Women, Work, and Worship in Lincoln´s Country: The Dumville Family Letters Hardback. Editor(s): Heinz, Anne; Heinz, John. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8 black and white photographs, 1 line drawing, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HRCC95; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252039959
SKU
V9780252039959
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Anne Heinz
Anne M. Heinz is the former Assistant Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and the coauthor of Crime and City Politics. John P. Heinz is the former Director of the American Bar Foundation and Owen L. Coon Professor Emeritus at the Northwestern University School of Law. He is the coauthor of Urban Lawyers: ... Read more

Reviews for Women, Work, and Worship in Lincoln´s Country: The Dumville Family Letters
"A wonderful achievement consisting of a trove of letters from a family living plain lives in central Illinois in the middle of the nineteenth century. Plain lives? Very many deaths from cholera and measles and other means, family strains, feuds, the moral rigor of the Methodist Church, and then the war came. People wear out. There's material here for a ... Read more

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