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- Title
Poor Mothers, Stepmothers, and Foster Mothers in Early Republic and Antebellum Charleston.
- Authors
Murray, John E.
- Abstract
The article presents a profile of poor women and their family structures in Charleston, South Carolina during the Early Republic and Antebellum periods. An overview is presented of over 400 letters between women and the Charleston Orphan House, discussing connections between foster care, women's economic conditions, and family structures in the Southern States. Accounts are given profiling women who sought access and admission to the orphanage's services as well as those who sought to regain custody of their children. The conditions of stepmothers are also examined in depth.
- Subjects
CHARLESTON (S.C.); SOUTH Carolina; UNITED States; POOR women; MOTHER-child relationship; FOSTER mothers; STEPMOTHERS; FAMILIES; ORPHANAGES; SOUTH Carolina state history, 1775-1865; HISTORY; UNITED States history
- Publication
Journal of the Early Republic, 2012, Vol 32, Issue 3, p463
- ISSN
0275-1275
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jer.2012.0053