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A blockaded family : life in southern Alabama during the Civil War
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Details
- Creator
- Parthenia Antoinette Hague ; introduction to the Bison Book Edition by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xxviii, 176 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780817390358, 0817390359, 9780817352752, 0817352759
- OCLC
- ocn966913577
- Originally published: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin, 1888.
- English.
- Introduction to the Bison Book Edition ; Chapter I. Beginnings of the Secession Movement -- A Negro Wedding ; Chapter II. Devices Rendered Necessary by the Blockade -- How the South Met a Great Emergency ; Chapter III. War-time Scenes on an Alabama Plantation -- Southern Women-their Ingenuity and Courage ; Chapter IV. How Cloth Was Dyed -- How Shoes, Thread, Hats, and Bonnets Were Manufactured
- Chapter V. Homespun Dresses -- Home -- Made Buttons and Pasteboard -- Uncle Ben Chapter VI. Aunt Phillis and Her Domestic Trials -- Knitting Around the Fireside -- Tramp, Tramp of the Spinners ; Chapter VII. Weaving Heavy Cloth -- Expensive Prints -- "" Blood Will Tell ""
- Chapter VIII. Substitutes for Coffee -- Raspberry-leaf Tea -- Home-made Starch, Putty, and Cement -- Spinning Bees Chapter IX. Old-time Hoofcskirts -- How the Slaves Lived -- Their Barbecues
- Chapter X. Painful Realities of Civil Strife -- Straitened Condition of the South -- Treatment of Prisoners Chapter XI. Homespun Weddings -- A Pathetic Incident -- Approach of the Northern. Army
- Chapter XII. Pillage and Plunder -- "" Papa's Fine Stock "" -- The South Overrun by Soldiers Chapter XIII. Return of the Vanquished -- Poverty of the Confederates ; Chapter XIV. Repairing Damages -- A Mother Made Happy -- Conclusion
Subjects
- Hague, Parthenia Antoinette, 1838-
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Blockades.
- Alabama -- Biography.
- Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
- Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
- Women -- Alabama -- Biography.
- Plantation life -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.