CSPAN3 American Artifacts Sex Marriage During The Civil War July 13, 2024
About Victorian Era marriage expectations and civil war brothels. My name is Cheryl Williams and i am portraying the reenactment, what it would have been like to be a victorian prostitute. The American Civil War was in the smack middle of the Victorian Era. Women were either supposed to be the pillar of the household, the center of the family we are talking about middleclass women. Without any means of support, you had few choices. You could get domestic servant, a laundress, or work in a factory. At the time of the civil war, there was a spike in widowhood. All of a sudden, middleclass women ...