Women, Slaves, and Free blacks

Women, Slaves, and Free blacks

Question # 1

Civil War and the Northern Women

Women in the Northern States during the civil war organized ladies' aid societies. These societies were established to supply the Union troops with the things they required. These items vary from food to clothing and cash. They organized door to door fund-raising campaigns, performed in front of others, in order to raise funds. They planted food and vegetables and sewed and knitted clothes and other things (Brackman, 2010). Their male counterparts were away on war, so they became responsible for their families. They began taking part in both local and national level to those on war. They find their place at work and marketplaces which increased their influence in the economic world. They became responsible for taking goods to the market and becoming a part of the business.

As a whole, the Northern women started taken jobs of their men. The federal government, at the time of civil war, became the greatest employer of women. It was another opportunity for women to participate in the home front efforts (Brackman, 2010). There were women who did not feel comfortable with the idea of working outside the parameters of Victorian America; they organized sanitary fairs for raising money for U.S. Sanitary Commission.

Civil War and the Southern Women

Southern women also played their role with the same zeal as their Northern equivalents. The Confederacy (Southern States) had fewer resources and less money as compared to the Union (Northern States). Owing to this fact, they did many of the work on their own or with the assistance of relief societies and local auxiliaries. They, like Northern women, sewed and cooked for their men.

They provided sandbags, uniforms, blankets, and other supplies for whole regiments (Brackman, 2010). They immersed themselves in nursing the ...