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Commenting on Emma's point about the bitter tone used by Eva Jones in her letters, its seems at least one source of her frustration stems from financial difficulties. While the war negatively effected the economies for both sides of the conflict, the Confederacy's economy was especially crippled. Through Eva Jones's experience, we see some specific economic woes for Southerners; Eva complains that her farm has "only a third-crop planted" and the "promising fields are now under water" (267). Additionally, she claims that "the Negroes and Yankees broke into our smokehouse and swept it of every piece of meat," which left her family starving. When comparing this source to Mary Livermore's experience with the successful, family-run farms in the North, I wonder if the roles among family members of southern farms changed in the same ways as northern farms. -Seth Mintzer | Commenting on Emma's point about the bitter tone used by Eva Jones in her letters, its seems at least one source of her frustration stems from financial difficulties. While the war negatively effected the economies for both sides of the conflict, the Confederacy's economy was especially crippled. Through Eva Jones's experience, we see some specific economic woes for Southerners; Eva complains that her farm has "only a third-crop planted" and the "promising fields are now under water" (267). Additionally, she claims that "the Negroes and Yankees broke into our smokehouse and swept it of every piece of meat," which left her family starving. When comparing this source to Mary Livermore's experience with the successful, family-run farms in the North, I wonder if the roles among family members of southern farms changed in the same ways as northern farms. -Seth Mintzer | ||
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| + | I thought it was interesting and a little humorous when Eva said: "And strange to say, the Yankees won't take our Confederate money!" In my opinion i think this represents the suddenness of the situation of defeat for this women given that she expects the Northerners to except the money of her now defunct "country." -Will Hechmer | ||
== Accounts of former slaves, 1865-1937 == | == Accounts of former slaves, 1865-1937 == | ||
