| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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Leigh Fought. Southern Womanhood and Slavery: A Biography of Louisa S. McCord, 1810–1879. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 216. $32.50.
Louisa Susanna McCord, political theorist, essayist, poet, and book reviewer, was almost unique among antebellum southern women. Her published works fill two volumes and deal with subjects hardly touched by her female contemporaries. At the same time, she administered a plantation, supported her family, and—during the Civil War—was the hard-hitting superintendent of an army hospital. She was in many ways an emancipated woman.	1
Daughter of Langdon Cheves, known to historians primarily because of his brief presidency of the ill-fated Bank of the United State, Louisa was well educated and confident of her abilities. Yet her verbal devotion to "woman's place" was in sharp contrast to the way she lived her life.	2
From frontier beginnings, her father had made his way to the upper reaches of South Carolina society, partly through his own skills, and partly through an advantageous marriage. Louisa was one of fourteen children, eight of whom died before 1860. Her mother died young, leaving her responsible for the household and the younger children. Louisa herself married late: she was thirty and her husband, David McCord, was thirteen years her senior, a widower whose first wife had died after bearing thirteen children. With Louisa he had three more children before his death in 1855.	. . .

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