This reminiscence of daily life on a Southern plantation during the War Between the States is filled with vivid details of everything from methods of making dyes and preparing foods to race relations and the effects of the conflict. The author provides an unusual and beautifully-written primary source of Southern life inside the Yankee blockade, told from a point of view that is noticeably different from most post-war accounts.

A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War

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Hague, Parthenia Antoinette

Americas

Confederate Reprint Company, The

Parthenia Vardaman (later Hague) experienced the Civil War while employed as a schoolteacher on a plantation near Eufaula, Alabama. A Blockaded Family recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during a blockade imposed on the South. The author shows that the Yankees had no monopoly on ingenuity when survival depended upon self-sufficiency. She describes in detail the changes forced by war on farming methods, the daily imperatives of finding enough to eat and making do with substitutes, the manufacture of shoes and clothes on the plantation. A Blockaded Family is memorable for its glimpses of wartime domestic life and of the ways anxious citizens coped as the northern army closed in.

University Of Nebraska Press

Blockaded Family (Black Heritage Library Collection)

Ayer Co. Pub

A Blockaded Family - Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War

This reminiscence of daily life on a Southern plantation during the Civil War was originally published in 1888. The book is filled with vivid details of everything from methods of making dyes and preparing foods to race relations and the effects of the war. A Blockaded Family is an unusual and beautifully-written primary source of Southern life inside the blockade, told from a point of view that is decidedly different from most post-war accounts. Contents Include: Beginnings of the Secession Movement A Negro Wedding Devices Rendered Necessary by the Blockade How the South Met a Great Emergency War Time Scenes on an Alabama Plantation Southern Women Their Ingenuity and Courage How Cloth was Dyed How Shoes, Thread, Hats and Bonnets Were Manufactured Homespun Dresses Home-Made Buttons and Pasteboard Uncle Ben Aunt Phillis and her Domestic Trials Knitting around the Fireside Tramp, Tramp of the Spinners Weaving Heavy Cloth Expensive Prints "Blood Will Tell" Substitutes for Coffee Raspberry

Hesperides Press

A Blockaded Family by Parthenia A. Hague is a testament to the ingenuity, adaptability and inventiveness with which a community cut off from outside resources resorts to fending for themselves and utilizing natures bounty. Less about politics and more about enduring; it contains tips on surviving and making do. From making a coffee substitute from okra seeds, watermelon syrup for sugar substitute, and persimmon seeds for buttons, this book captivates the reader with timeless wisdom.

A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War: Elemental Historic Preparedness Collection

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A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama during the War

This is a memoir written by a Southern woman during the Civil War that talks about what life was like in the Deep South and the effects the North's naval blockade had.

This reminiscence of daily life on a Southern plantation during the Civil War was originally published in 1888. Filled with vivid details of everything from methods of making dyes and preparing foods to race relations and the effects of the war, the book is an unusual and beautifully written primary source of Southern life inside the blockade imposed by the Union.

Blockaded Family: Life in So. Alabama (Applewood Books)

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Historical

Applewood Books

Gettysburg, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville; the American Civil War was full of well-documented major battles. But what was like away from the frontlines? This conflict that cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of young men also traumatized those on the home front as they were left to pick the pieces after armies had swept through their towns and they were forced to comprehend life without husbands, fathers and sons. Parthenia Antoinette Hague’s remarkable book A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama during the Civil War details how she spent her four years of the civil war on a plantation near Eufaula, Alabama. As Lisa Tendrich Frank explains in Women in the American Civil War this is a fascinating work that uncovers “a meticulous accounting of homefront measures taken to ensure that Southerners, who had depended heavily on Northern imports, were fed and clothed during the years of the blockade.” "Giving in an easy, kindly, sympathetic style the every-day life in Southern Alabama during the dark days of Civil War." Current Opinion This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the southern home front of the civil war as the federal navy blockaded their ports and the northern armies closed in. Parthenia Antoinette Hague was a schoolteacher through the years of the civil war. Her book A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama during the Civil War was first published in 1888 and Hague passed away in 1914.

Independently published

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A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War

A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War

Blockaded Family (Black Heritage Library Collection)

A Blockaded Family - Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War

A Blockaded Family - Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War

A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War: Elemental Historic Preparedness Collection

A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama during the War

A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama during the War

Blockaded Family: Life in So. Alabama (Applewood Books)

A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War