Linda talks to Drew Gilpin Faust, author of "Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War." (University of North Carolina Press) The book tells the history of white slaveholding women whose lives changed dramatically because of the Civil War. In their letters and diaries, they talk about how they are not prepared to take on household tasks and manage slaves in the absence of their husbands. Even though they are anxious for the ward to end, they do not question the morality of slavery.
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