{"product_id":"north-carolina-women-their-lives-and-times-volume-1-paperback","title":"North Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times, Volume 1 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAngela Robbins\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eCorey Stewart\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by), \u003cb\u003eCynthia A. Kierner\u003c\/b\u003e (Contribution by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorth 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 \u003ci\u003eIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl\u003c\/i\u003e; 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 from the late eighteenth century into the early twentieth century, offering important new insights into the variety of North Carolina women's experiences across time, place, race, and class, and conveys how women were able to expand their considerable influence during periods of political challenge and economic hardship, particularly over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese essays highlight North Carolina's progressive streak and its positive impact on women's education--for white and black alike-- beginning in the antebellum period on through new opportunities that opened up in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They explore the ways industrialization drew large numbers of women into the paid labor force for the first time and what the implications of this tremendous transition were; they also examine the women who challenged traditional gender roles, as political leaders and labor organizers, as runaways, and as widows. The volume is especially attuned to differences in region within North Carolina, delineating women's experiences in the eastern third of the state, the piedmont, and the western mountains.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichele Gillespie (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e MICHELE GILLESPIE is a professor of history and dean of the undergraduate college at Wake Forest University. She is also author of \u003ci\u003eFree Labor in an Unfree World: White Artisans in Slaveholding Georgia, 1789-1860\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia) and co-editor of ten books, including \u003ci\u003eNorth Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times\u003c\/i\u003e (Georgia). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSally G. McMillen (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SALLY G. McMILLEN is the Mary Reynolds Babcock Professor of History at Davidson College. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eMotherhood in the Old South: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Infant Rearing\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSouthern Women: Black and White in the Old South\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eTo Raise Up the South: Sunday Schools in Black and White Churches, 1865-1915\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eSeneca Falls and the Origins of the Women's Rights Movement\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 15, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757852000544,"sku":"9780820340005","price":63.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8720c6f844ced475b08ac12fb0bf49b1.webp?v=1780113150","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/north-carolina-women-their-lives-and-times-volume-1-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}