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1 online resource |
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Southern Women: Their Lives and Times |
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Southern women (Athens, Ga.)
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; The Edenton Ladies: Women, Tea, and Politics in Revolutionary North Carolina; Sister Anna: An African Woman in Early North Carolina; Elizabeth Maxwell Steele: "A Great Politician" and the Revolution in the Southern Backcountry; Rose O'Neal Greenhow: "Bearer of Dispatches to the Confederate Government"; Catherine Devereux Edmondston: "My lines are cast in such pleasant places"; Harriet and Louisa Jacobs: "Not without My Daughter"; Cornelia Phillips Spencer: The Foremost Daughter of North Carolina and the Contradictions of a Nineteenth- Century Public Life |
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Alice Morgan Person: "My life has been out of the ordinary run of woman's life"Mary Bayard Clarke: Design for "Upsetting the Established Order of Our Dear Old Conservative State"; Anna Julia Cooper: Black Feminist Scholar, Educator, and Activist; Sallie Southall Cotten: Organized Womanhood Comes to North Carolina; Annie Lowrie Alexander: "A Woman Doing a Great Work in a Womanly Way"; Sarah Cowan "Daisy" Denson: The Lost Matriarch of State Public Welfare Reform; Sarah Dudley Pettey: "A New Age Woman" and the Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in North Carolina |
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Mary Martin Sloop: Mountain Miracle WorkerEdith Vanderbilt and Katharine Smith Reynolds: The Public Lives of Progressive North Carolina's Wealthiest Women; Arizona Nick Swaney Blankenship: Becoming Cherokee; Samantha Biddix Bumgarner: Country Music Pioneer; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
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 f |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- North Carolina -- Biography
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Women -- North Carolina -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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Women
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North Carolina
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gillespie, Michele
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McMillen, Sally G. (Sally Gregory), 1944-
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| ISBN |
9780820346540 |
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0820346543 |
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9781306290722 |
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1306290724 |
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0820347566 |
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9780820347561 |
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0820340014 |
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9780820340012 |
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