Publisher description for A blockaded family : life in southern Alabama during the Civil War / Parthenia Antoinette Hague ; introduction by Elizabeth Fox-Genovese.


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A memorable and fascinating glimpse into the Civil War home front.

Parthenia Hague experienced the Civil War while employed as a schoolteacher on a plantation near Eufaula, Alabama. This book recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during the blockade imposed on the South by the federal navy. The memoir of Parthenia Hague is a detailed look at the ingenious industry and self-sufficiency employed by anxious citizens as the northern army closed in.

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese is Eleonore Raoul Professor of Humanities at Emory University and author of a number of volumes, including Within the Plantation Household; Black and White Women of the Old South.




Library of Congress subject headings for this publication:
Hague, Parthenia Antoinette, -- b. 1838.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate.
Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Women.
Plantation life -- Alabama -- History -- 19th century.
Alabama -- Biography.
Women -- Alabama -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Blockades.