Clara Judd, a Confederate spy whose imprisonment for treason led to a change in legal theory about women as automatically non-combatants is one key figure in the Stephanie McCurry’s Women’s War: Fighting and Surviving the Civil War.
Although from the New Books Network podcast interview, what really stuck with me was the account of the individual stories of the unwinding of slavery, the abusive sexual relationships that it entailed and the fight many of those abuse victims had to rights for themselves and their children – issues that in small towns would rumble on for generations.
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