Question

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.

Answer 1

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.

Step-by-step 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. 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.