HIST 339 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Flags Of The Confederate States Of America, Emancipation Proclamation
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One student wrote that both elite and poor white women experienced the war as one of potential loss. Enslaved and free black women experienced the war as potential gain. One student says that the war presented a time of opportunity for all women. Another rebuts that we can argue that there were more opportunities for black women than white women, both during and after the war. Another points out that black women (esp those enslaved) had much less opportunity in society in general due to the existence of racism. One discusses how the war gave all women opportunities for activism. Another questions using the word activism in such a broad sense; she disagrees that poor white women were activists because their working in jobs for the confederacy it was out of necessity and not ideological interest. Enslaved black women arguably experienced more because of the growing violence they experienced at the hands of their masters.
