Böcker av Laura F. Edwards

Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access the legal system and to exercise political power.

The logic of inequality underwent a profound transformation within the southern legal system. Drawing on the archival research in North and South Carolina, this title illuminates those changes by revealing the importance of localized legal practice.

An history of the South in the years leading up to and following the Civil War focusing on the women, black and white, rich and poor, who made up the fabric of southern life before the war and remade themselves and their world after it. It explores the experiences and actions of individual women in the changing South.