The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827-1835 ― A Substitute for Social Intercourse
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ISBN13：9780817313333
出版社：Univ of Alabama Pr
作者：Sarah Haynsworth Gayle; Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins (EDT); Ruth Smith Truss (EDT)
出版日：2013/11/05
裝訂／頁數：精裝／384頁
規格：20.3cm*12.7cm*2.5cm (高/寬/厚)
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Astonishing, tragic, and remarkable, the journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, wife of early Alabama governor John Gayle, is among the most widely studied and seminal accounts of antebellum life in the American South. This is the first complete edition of the journal in print.
Bereft of the companionship of her often-absent husband, Sarah considered her journal “a substitute for social intercourse” during the period from 1827 to 1835. It became the social and intellectual companion to which she confided stories that reflected her personal life and the world of early Alabama. Sarah speaks directly to us of her loneliness, the challenges of child rearing, her fear of and frustration with the management of slaves, and the difficulty of balancing the responsibilities of a socially prominent woman with her family’s slender finances.
The poor condition of the journal and its transcripts, sometimes disintegrated or reassembled in the wrong order, has led historians to misinterpret Gayle’s words. Gayle’s descendants, Alabama’s famed Gorgases, deliberately obscured or defaced many passages. Using archival techniques to recover the text and restore the correct order, Sarah Wiggins and Ruth Truss reveal the unknown story of Sarah’s economic hardships, the question of her husband’s “temperance,” and her opium use.
The only reliable and unexpurgated edition of Sarah Gayle’s journal, now enhanced with a fascinating introduction and inset notes, The Journal of Sarah Haynsworth Gayle, 1827–1835, is a robust and gripping account and will be of inestimable value to our understanding of antebellum society, religion, intellectual culture, and slavery.
Published in cooperation with the University Libraries, The University of Alabama, with further financial support from the Library Leadership Board, the University Libraries, The University of Alabama.
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Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins is a professor emerita of history at the University of Alabama, a past president of the Alabama Historical Association, and editor of the Alabama Review for twenty years. She is the author or editor of The Scalawag in Alabama Politics, 1865–1881; From Civil War to Civil Rights—Alabama 1860–1960: An Anthology from “The Alabama Review”; The Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 1857–1878; and Love and Duty: Amelia and Josiah Gorgas and Their Family.
Ruth Smith Truss is a professor of history and chair of the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Montevallo who has published a number of articles related to Alabama history and has served on the board of directors of the Alabama Historical Association. She is also president of the Friends of the Alabama Archives.
Ruth Smith Truss is a professor of history and chair of the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the University of Montevallo who has published a number of articles related to Alabama history and has served on the board of directors of the Alabama Historical Association. She is also president of the Friends of the Alabama Archives.
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