
Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South
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Investigates the lives of unmarried white women - from the pre- to the post-Civil War South - within a society that placed high value on women's marriage and motherhood. Marie S. Molloy examines female singleness to incorporate non-marriage, widowhood, separation, and divorce. She contends that the Civil War proved a catalyst for accelerating personal, social, economic, and legal changes for these women.