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Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans--whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone With the Wind or in historical studies that look inside the slave cabin. Now Brenda E. Stevenson presents a reality far more gripping than popular legend,even as she challenges the conventional wisdom of academic historians. Life in Black and White provides a panoramic portrait of family and community life in and around Loudoun County, Virginia--weaving the fascinating personal stories of planters and slaves, of free blacks and poor-to-middlingwhites, into a powerful portrait of southern society from the mid-eighteenth century to the Civil War. Loudoun County and its vicinity encapsulated the full sweep of southern life...
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History, Social conditions, Slavery, Family, Nonfiction, Families, Family, history, Loudoun county (va.), Slavery, united states, history, United states, social conditions, to 1865, Southern states, history, Southern states, social conditionsPlaces
Virginia, Loudon County, Loudoun County (Va.)Times
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Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South
1997, Oxford University Press
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August 28, 1997, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford University Press
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Life in black and white: family and community in the slave South
1996, Oxford University Press
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