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North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1
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Overview
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 twentieth century, offering important new insights into the variety of North Carolina women’s experiences across time, place, race, and class, and conveys how women were able to expand their considerable influence during periods of political challenge and economic hardship, particularly over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
These essays highlight North Carolina’s progressive streak and its positive impact on women’s education—for white and black alike— beginning in the antebellum period on through new opportunities that opened up in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They explore the ways industrialization drew large numbers of women into the paid labor force for the first time and what the implications of this tremendous transition were; they also examine the women who challenged traditional gender roles, as political leaders and labor organizers, as runaways, and as widows. The volume is especially attuned to differences in region within North Carolina, delineating women’s experiences in the eastern third of the state, the piedmont, and the western mountains.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780820340005 |
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Publisher: | University of Georgia Press |
Publication date: | 02/15/2014 |
Series: | Southern Women: Their Lives and Times Series , #9 |
Pages: | 432 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
JOHN C. INSCOE is a professor of history emeritus at the University of Georgia and the founding editor of the New Georgia Encyclopedia. He is coauthor of The Heart of Confederate Appalachia.
ROBERT HUNT FERGUSON is an associate professor of history at Western Carolina University. His work has been published in Arkansas Review, Arkansas Historical Quarterly, Journal of Southern History, Southern Cultures, and North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1 (Georgia).
MICHELE GILLESPIE is a professor of history and dean of the undergraduate college at Wake Forest University. She is also author of Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789–1860 (Georgia) and co-editor of ten books, including North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (Georgia).
SALLY G. McMILLEN is the Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History at Davidson College. She is the author of Motherhood in the Old South: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Infant Rearing; Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South; To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865–1915; and Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement.
Michele Gillespie (Editor)
MICHELE GILLESPIE is a professor of history and dean of the undergraduate college at Wake Forest University. She is also author of Free Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789–1860 (Georgia) and co-editor of ten books, including North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times (Georgia).
Sally G. McMillen (Editor)
SALLY G. McMILLEN is the Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History at Davidson College. She is the author of Motherhood in the Old South: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Infant Rearing; Southern Women: Black and White in the Old South; To Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865–1915; and Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement.
Table of Contents
Introduction Michele Gillespie Sally G. McMillen 1
The Edenton Ladies: Women, Tea, and Politics in Revolutionary North Carolina Cynthia A. Kierner 12
Sister Anna: An African Woman in Early North Carolina Jon Sensbach 34
Elizabeth Maxwell Steele: "A Great Politician" and the Revolution in the Southern Backcountry Cory Joe Stewart 54
Rose O'Neal Greenhow: "Bearer of Dispatches to the Confederate Government" Sheila R. Phipps 73
Catherine Devereux Edmondston: "My lines are cast in such pleasant places" Suzanne Cooper Guasco 94
Harriet and Louisa Jacobs: "Not without My Daughter" Jim Downs 117
Cornelia Phillips Spencer: The Foremost Daughter of North Carolina and the Contradictions of a Nineteenth-Century Public Life William A. Link 133
Alice Morgan Person: "My life has been out of the ordinary run of woman's life" Angela Robbins 152
Mary Bayard Clarke: Design for "Upsetting the Established Order of Our Dear Old Conservative State" Terrell Armistead Crow 174
Anna Julia Cooper: Black Feminist Scholar, Educator, and Activist Vivian M. May 192
Sallie Southall Cotton: Organized Womanhood Comes to North Carolina Margaret Supplee Smith 213
Annie Lowrie Alexander: "A Woman Doing a Great Work in a Womanly Way" James Douglas Alsop 241
Sarah Cowan "Daisy" Denson: The Lost Matriarch of State Public Welfare Reform Sarah Wilkerson-Freeman 263
Sarah Dudley Pettey: "A New Age Woman" and the Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in North Carolina Elizabeth Lundeen 291
Mary Martin Sloop: Mountain Miracle Worker John C. Inscoe 313
Edith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds: The Public Lives of Progressive North Carolina's Wealthiest Women Michele Gillespie 337
Arizona Nick Swaney Blankenship: Becoming Cherokee Sarah H. Hill 359
Samantha Biddix Bumgarner: Country Music Pioneer Robert Hunt Ferguson 383
Contributors 397
Index 401