A Woman Doctor's Civil War (eBook)

Esther Hill Hawks' Diary

Gerald Schwartz (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
304 Seiten
University of South Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-64336-333-2 (ISBN)

Infos

A physician, a Northerner, a teacher, a school administrator, a suffragist, and an abolitionist, Esther Hill Hawks was the antithesis of Southern womanhood. And those very differences destined her to chronicle the era in which she played such a strange part.While most women of the 1860s stayed at home, tending husband and house, Esther Hill Hawks went south to minister to black Union troops and newly freed slaves as both a teacher and a doctor. She kept a diary and described the South she saw-conquered but still proud. Her pen, honed to a fine point by her abolitionist views, missed mothing as she traveled through a hungary and ailing land.In the well-known Diary from Dixie, Mary Boykin Chestnut depiced her native Southland as one of cavaliers with their ladies, statesmen and politicians, honor and glory. But Hawks painted a much different picture. And unlike Chestnut's characters, hers were liberated slaves and their hungary children, swaggering carpetbaggers, occupation troops far from home, and zealous missionaries. Revealed in the pages of this diary is a woman of vast energy, intelligence, and fortitude, who transformed her idealism into action.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.4.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Women's Diaries and Letters of the South
• Reihe/Serie: Women's Diaries and Letters of the South
• Zusatzinfo: 3 b&w halftones
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Civil War doctor, female doctor, abolitionist, New England Female Medical College, school for freed blacks
• ISBN-10: 1-64336-333-6 / 1643363336
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64336-333-2 / 9781643363332