When I wrote Unruly Women, (published 1992) I focused primarily on showing how the lives of nonslaveholding women–poor white, free black, and farm women–were impacted by living in a slaveholding society. I was particularly interested in […]
Moncure Conway, Southern Abolitionist
by Vikki Bynum Figuring out the racial views of white southerners who opposed the Confederacy can be difficult. It is tempting, for example, to interpret white nonslaveholders’ economic resentment of slaveholders as evidence that they opposed slavery […]
Near and Distant Pasts Revisited: My 2001 interview by David Woodbury
Researching Civil War Home Fronts and Beyond by Vikki Bynum Back in fall, 2001, just months after the release of my book, Free State of Jones, David Woodbury (moderator of Battlefields and […]
Part 2: Ed Payne on Jones County Civil War Widows
Martha Rushing Walters Sumrall by Ed Payne The life of Civil War widow Martha Rushing Walters Sumrall was short. Born in 1844, she would be laid to rest in a now forgotten […]
Renegade South 