Title: Life in Black and White
First published: 1996
Description: 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...
Subjects: 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 conditions
Places: Virginia, Loudon County, Loudoun County (Va.)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: HN79.V82 L687 1996