| A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War Contributor(s): Hague, Parthenia (Author), Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0817352759 ISBN-13: 9780817352752 Publisher: University Alabama Press
Binding Type: Paperback Published: May 2005 Annotation: "Hague's memoir provides a rare glimpse, from a woman's perspcetive, of the full activities of a slaveholding household. . . . [It] skillfully constructs an image of elite southern whites as, in essential ways, very much like their northern peers: industrious, resourceful, devoted to their families, and loyal to the Union."--Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Parthenia Vardaman (later Hague) experienced the Civil War while employed as a schoolteacher on a plantation near Eufaula, Alabama. "A Blockaded Family" recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during a blockade imposed on the South. The author shows that the Yankees had no monopoly on ingenuity when survival depended upon self-sufficiency. She describes in detail the changes forced by war on farming methods, the daily imperatives of finding enough to eat and making do with substitutes, the manufacture of shoes and clothes on the plantation. "A Blockaded Family" is memorable for its glimpses of wartime domestic life and of the ways anxious citizens coped as the northern army closed in. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, director of the Institute for Women's Studies and Eleonore Raoul Professor of Humanities at Emory University, is the author of "Within the Plantation Household; Black and White Women of the Old South" (1988) and "Feminism without Illustrations: A Critique of Individualism" (1991). |
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2007026075 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.08" W x 9.1" L (0.46 lbs) 204 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War - Geographic Orientation - Alabama - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Features: Illustrated |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A memorable and fascinating glimpse into the Civil War home front. Parthenia Hague experienced the Civil War while employed as a schoolteacher on a plantation near Eufaula, Alabama. This book recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during the blockade imposed on the South by the federal navy. The memoir of Parthenia Hague is a detailed look at the ingenious industry and self-sufficiency employed by anxious citizens as the northern army closed in. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese is Eleonore Raoul Professor of Humanities at Emory University and author of a number of volumes, including Within the Plantation Household; Black and White Women of the Old South. |
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