C-SPAN Cities Tour - Columbia: "Mary Chestnut's Diary From DIxie"
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 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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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!
I love the book. I recommend to all to read these diaries from the women of the South during Lincoln's War.
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…