Review: Inspiring and touching
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2013
This would be a five-star book were it not for the poor production values.  Like all the digitized books scanned by volunteers, it needs a lot of editing.But this is a Marvelous accounting of relations between the races in the South:  antebellum, during the Civil War, and Reconstruction.  It was written by a former slave who held no rancor against his former masters.  He wanted to get out the message that while Slavery itself is an Atrocity, many blacks and their white owners were reasonably happy "families."This is not a sensationalist, gory view of the horrors of cruel masters, but instead the fond remembrances of a man who had been well-treated and even properly prepared for Emancipation.Despite the typos and scanning glitches, I read it through twice and intend to keep it for reference.