Aberration of Mind Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War–Era South by Diane Miller Sommerville Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2018 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4330-4, ISBN: 1-4696-4330-8
"More than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychological crisis it created. In Aberration of Mind, Diane Miller Sommerville offers the first book-length treatment of suicide in the South during the Civil War era, giving us insight into both white and black communities, Confederate soldiers and their families, as well as the enslaved and newly freed. With ..."
"Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by examining actual cases of black-on-white rape throughout the nineteenth century. Sommerville demonstrates that despite draconian statutes, accused black rapists frequently avoided execution or castration, largely due to intervention by members ..."
"“It is well that war is so terrible,” Robert E. Lee reportedly said, “or we would grow too fond of it.” The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war terrible again. Taking a “freakonomics” approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind ..."
"Laura F. Edwards, ''Law, Domestic Violence, and the Limits of Patriarchal
Authority in the Antebellum South,'' 741 n. 11. 12. Rothman, Notorious in the
Neighborhood. 13. Jordan, White over Black. 14. Painter, '''Of Lily, Linda Brent,
and Freud,'' 259; Hodes, White Women, Black Men; Hodes, ''The Sexualization of
Reconstruction Politics''; Hodes, ''Wartime Dialogues on Illicit Sex''; Laura F.
Edwards, ''The Disappearance of Susan Dan ..."
""It is well that war is so terrible," Robert E. Lee reportedly said, "or we would grow too fond of it." The essays collected here make the case that we have grown too fond of it, and therefore we must make the war ter-rible again. Taking a "freakonomics" approach to Civil War studies, each contributor uses a seemingly unusual story, incident, or phenomenon to cast new light on the nature of the war itself. Collectively the essays remind ..."
Aberration of Mind Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South by Diane Miller Sommerville 448 Pages, Published 2018 by Unc Press Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4357-1, ISBN: 1-4696-4357-X
"Columbia: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 1995. “A Letter to
a Friend ... Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Special Collections, Perkins
Library, Duke University, Durham, N.C. Mackintosh, Robert Harley, Jr., ed. “Dear
Martha . ... The Diary of Miss Emma Holmes, 1861–1866. ... “Civilization and
Suicide."
Aberration of Mind Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South by Diane Miller Sommerville Hardcover, 448 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-4356-4, ISBN: 1-4696-4356-1