10-3-WA-P283-294-EnemiesInOurHouseholds

Question 0

What challenges did elite women face at the beginning of the war?

Answer 0

White women assumed direction of the region’s “peculiar institution.” She became the female slave master. This was unwanted and made men uneasy.

Question 1

What is the title and author of the article?

Answer 1

Enemies in Our Households: Confederate Women and Slavery by Drew Gilpin Faust

Question 2

What allies did they have?

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Question 3

What forms of resistance to authority did slaves engage in?

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Question 4

How did the disruptions of the war bring into question traditional relations between white women and men?

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Question 5

What are the section headings?

Answer 5

Unprotected and Afraid
The Fruits of the War
Troubled in Mind
An Entire Rupture of Our Domestic Relations

Question 6

What can be inferred from the Section Headings?

Answer 6

That women were routinely raped without recourse as spoils of war.