now i also turned to and a leconte -- emma leconte.he wrote in her diary in 1965 as long as we could keep body and soul together, father would not borrow from anyone, but to be under obligation to a yankee? the yankee rations are only drawn by people in actual need, or that have no soap respect. her notes mirrored -- no self-respect. her notes mirrored those of other columbians who feared for the broader changes that this growing dependency might bring about in their city and larger southern society. the reason this seemed to threaten the actual basis of society is that antebellum society was organized around the unit of the household, and a household was defined as the male household head and all of his dependents. that would be his slaves, his children, his sisters, his wife, and a southern man was not fully independent or a full citizen until he had dependents who depended on him. this independent -- this private dependence gave him private authority in his household, and that translated directly into public power. the civil war and