Women, Work, and Worship in Lincoln's Country
The Dumville Family Letters
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2016
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-03995-9 (ISBN)
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-03995-9 (ISBN)
The Dumville family settled in central Illinois during an era of division and dramatic change. Arguments over slavery raged. Railroads and circuit-riding preachers brought the wider world to the prairie. Irish and German immigrants flooded towns and churches. Anne M. Heinz and John P. Heinz draw from an extraordinary archive at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum to reveal how Ann Dumville and her daughters Jemima, Hephzibah, and Elizabeth lived these times. The letters tell the story of Ann, expelled from her Methodist church for her unshakable abolitionist beliefs; the serious and religious Jemima, a schoolteacher who started each school day with prayer; Elizabeth, enduring hard work as a farmer's wife, far away from the others; and Hephzibah, observing human folly and her own marriage prospects with the same wicked wit. Though separated by circumstances, the Dumvilles deeply engaged one another with their differing views on Methodism, politics, education, technological innovation, and relationships with employers. At the same time, the letters offer a rarely seen look at antebellum working women confronting privation, scarce opportunities, and the horrors of civil war with unwavering courage and faith.
Anne M. Heinz is the former Assistant Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago and the coauthor of Crime and City Politics. John P. Heinz is the former Director of the American Bar Foundation and Owen L. Coon Professor Emeritus at the Northwestern University School of Law. He is the coauthor of Urban Lawyers: The New Social Structure of the Bar.
CoverTitleCopyrightContentsPreface: The Provenance and Transcription of the LettersAcknowledgments1. The Dumvilles and Their Times2. 1851–1853 Family Matters3. 1854–1855 Cholera4. 1856–1857 Political Awarenes5. 1858–1860 The Lincoln-Douglas Elections6. 1861–1863 The War7. The Letters EndNotesReferencesIndex
Erscheinungsdatum | 29.02.2016 |
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Zusatzinfo | 8 black and white photographs, 1 line drawing, 3 maps |
Verlagsort | Baltimore |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
ISBN-10 | 0-252-03995-5 / 0252039955 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-252-03995-9 / 9780252039959 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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