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Delving into wartime diaries kept by women of the southern slave-owning class, Steven Stowe recaptures their motivations to keep the days close even as war tore apart the brutal system of slavery that had benefited them. In studying the inner lives of these unsympathetic characters, Stowe also explores the importance - and the limits - of historical empathy as a condition for knowing the past.

Slaveholders --- Women, White --- White women --- Slave holders --- Slave masters --- Slave owners --- Slavemasters --- Slaveowners --- Persons --- Plantation owners --- Slavery --- Diaries. --- United States --- History --- Historiography. --- Women. --- Enslavers

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"The essays in Insiders, outsiders tap into the interdisciplinary synergy that has come to characterize Southern studies, exploring current creative tensions between classic themes in Southern history and the new ways to approach them. Region and identity, intellectuals and change, the South as an idea and ideas in the South-these continue to inspire the best new research as showcased in this collection"--

Marginality, Social --- American literature --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Southern States --- Historiography.