Teaching was still seen as a critical calling, but southern society was changing rapidly.

She portrayed southern society in detail and studied the mixed roles of men and women.

The issues were especially pressing during the social volatility of Reconstruction and late 19th-century southern society.

Her memoirs have been important sources for historians doing research on southern society during and after the Civil War.

Struck by the inequalities in the southern society that confronted him at the time, he became identified as a young man with progressive Democratic politics.

This was efficient in the short run but meant that they would never assimilate into southern society.

Confederates fought to protect southern society, and slavery as an integral part of it.

But John, an abolitionist, does not fit well into southern society.

It also represented the birth of a new southern society, rather than a return to its antebellum predecessor.

She also used her study as a way to evaluate the role of women in the southern male-dominated society.