C-SPAN Cities Tour - Columbia: "Mary Chestnut's Diary From DIxie"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Family historian Marty Daniels takes us through the diaries of Mary Chestnut; and gives a contemporaneous account of the events of the 1860's through the life and eyes of Mary Chestnut. These diaries provide a valuable insight into Confederate political and military maneuvering and Southerners' morale as news arrives of victories and defeats.
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I love the book. I recommend to all to read these diaries from the women of the South during Lincoln's War.
You did a great service in getting those pictures from Ebay and sending them where they belong. now
What a debt all lovers of history owe the people that reunited the photos with the diary.. wow, that is just an awesome story!
The Civil War was NOT about women's rights at all ! However, Mary C. did speak of women's rights in her diary that's for sure. She was very ahead of her time!
in some ways - Mary C. could have been HUNG as a SPY!
Southern heritage was “correct” in some southern minds thanks to free labour that made millionaires of the lucky few. Sorry my opinion .
Most southern people were not slave owners. The aristocrat planter class was actually only a very small percentage of the people. Also, most of the planters were actually cash poor, their wealth was actually tied up in the commodity of human flesh they ‘owned’ , as repugnant as that is to say. These southern planters selfishly sought to protect their way of life as it is what gave them status. It was a system doomed to failure but the people at its center were blinded to these facts. The sad history of slavery is a blight on all of humanity going back to biblical times. Sad to say…