Bøger af Sally G. McMillen

In the half century after the Civil War, evangelical southerners turned increasingly to Sunday schools as a means of rejuvenating their destitute region and adjusting to an ever-modernizing world. This text examines Sunday schools in seven black and white denominations.

Explores the childbearing and -rearing responsibilities that consumed, often literally, the lives of women in the Old South. Sally McMillen explores the social, political, and medical influences of the time, and examines how a woman's maternal role ensured her value within the family and the greater society.