Southern ladies and suffragists : Julia Ward Howe and women's rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair /

This book chronicles the successes and setbacks of a lively cast of postbellum women in the first Woman's Department at a world's fair in the Deep South. From a wide range of primary documents, Miki Pfeffer re-creates the sounds and sights of 1884 New Orleans after the Civil War and Recons...

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