CSPAN3 April 28, 2012
prescriptions for southern women. they were taught and prepared to one day assume their place upon the proverbial pedestal of the southern lady. these female youths also were born and raised in a period of american history when the regional debates over slavery had reached a fevered pitch. they had nothing else. they had no other memory of a different kind of political context. but these young women looked to the past with a romantic gaze hoping to return to an idealic south that passed generations of southern women had enjoyed. so when the region stood on the brink of war in early 1...
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