Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South socks an astute lawyer in his

an astute lawyer in his own right

and siphoned away thousands of men from the Union war effort

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and tactics and zoomed in on particular episodes: the Battle of Brandy Station in June 1863 (the largest cavalry engagement on American soil)

Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South socks an astute lawyer in hisby Brenda Stevenson 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