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New book examines family and gender in Confederate Alabama
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The Failure of Our Fathers: Family, Gender, and Power in Confederate Alabama is drawing attention among history readers. The book argues that family provided the conceptual framework that explains why ordinary white Southerners supported a war to protect slavery despite having little or no investment in the institution itself. Discussion has focused on how kinship ideology and gender roles sustained political loyalty during the Civil War era.
Why now: Readers interested in Civil War history are sharing and discussing the book's argument about family ideology and Confederate support.
Confederate AlabamaThe Failure of Our FathersOttAmerican Civil War
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