Description: 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.
Brief description: JOHN C. INSCOE is a professor of history emeritus at the University of Georgia and the founding editor of the New Georgia Encyclopedia. He is coauthor of The Heart of Confederate Appalachia.
Review Quotes:
The stories in this wonderful addition to the Southern Women: Their Lives and Times series are a pleasure to read and contemplate. The diversity of women featured has much to teach us about North Carolina history, as well as about the larger story of women in the South and, indeed, the nation.
--Joan Marie Johnson "coeditor, South Carolina Women: Their Lives and Times"