Why would historians want to analyze the diary of a plantation wife during the Reconstruction era? Group of answer choices In a
diary, historians can find criticism of the Reconstruction era. Diaries show the attitudes of a person who lived during the time under study. Diaries are factually more accurate than public documents of the period. Such documents can be used for quotations in historical writing.
Historians would want to analyze the diary of a plantation wife because:
B. Diaries show the attitudes of a person who lived during the time under study.
Explanation:
Diaries clearly have a different kind of value than formal documents do. Nonetheless, they have value, and historians are very well aware of that. <u>Diaries are a source for cultural insight and historical immersion in someone's life. We get a glimpse of what that person's life was like, how their routine unfolded, what their attitudes, worries, opinions, and behaviors were like and what affected them. From diaries, we get a more personal account on life's issues. All of that allows us to better understand society during a certain time in history.</u>
