Scarlett doesn't live here anymore is a dramatic history of the south in the years leading up to and following the civil war: a history that focuses on the women, black and white, rich and poor, who made up the fabric of southern life before the war and remade themselves and their world after it. Positing the household as the central institution of southern society, edwards delineates the inseparable links between domestic relations and civil and political rights in ways that highlight women's active political role throughout the nineteenth century.She draws on diaries, letters, newspaper accounts, government records, legal documents, court proceedings, and other primary sources to explore the experiences and actions of individual women in the changing south, demonstrating how family, kin, personal reputation, and social context all merged with gender, race, and class to shape what particular women could do in particular circumstances. Meet harriet jacobs, the escaped slave who hid in a tiny, unheated attic on her master's property for seven years until she could free her children and herself.Marion singleton deveaux converse, the southern belle who leaped out a second-story window to escape her second husband's discipline and received temporary shelter from her slaves.Sarah guttery, a white, poor, unwed mother of two, whose hard work and clean living earned her community's respect despite her youthful transgressions.Aunt lucy, who led her fellow slaves in taking over her...
