Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South

Synopsis

This Book Studies The Meaning Of Suicide In The Nineteenth-century South And How That Meaning Changed, If At All, As A Result Of The Civil War And Its Aftermath. It Looks At The Whole South While Providing A More Thorough Examination Than Previous Books Of The Dynamics Of Both The Racial And Gendered Dimensions Of Suicide In The South During The Long Civil War Era. A Burden Too Heavy To Bear: War Trauma, Suicide, And Confederate Soldiers -- A Dark Doom To Dread: Women, Suicide, And Suffering On The Confederate Homefront -- De Lan' Of Sweet Dreams: Suffering And Suicide Among The Enslaved -- Somethin' Went Hard Agin Her Mind: Suffering, Suicide, And Emancipation -- The Accursed Ills I Cannot Bear: Confederate Veterans, Suicide, And Suffering In The Defeated South -- The Distressed State Of The Country: Confederate Men And The Navigation Of Economic, Political, And Emotional Ruin In The Postwar South -- All Is Dark Before Me: Confederate Women And The Postwar Landscape Of Suffering And Suicide -- Cumberer Of The Earth: The Secularization Of Suffering And Suicide. Diane Miller Sommerville. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.