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Author Stevenson, Brenda E

Title Life in Black and White : Family and Community in the Slave South
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (490 pages)
Contents 1. The White Community: Patterns of Settlement, Development, and Conflict; 2. Gender Convention and Courtship; 3. Marriage, for Better or for Worse; 4. Parenting; 5. Broken Vows and "Notorious" Endings: Divorce; 6. The Nature of Loudoun Slavery; 7. Slave Family Structure; 8. Slave Marriage and Family Relations; 9. Free Blacks; 10. Free Black Family and Household Economy; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary 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-middling whites, into
Analysis Family
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Subject Families -- Virginia -- Loudoun County -- History -- 19th century
Slavery -- Virginia -- Loudoun County -- History -- 19th century
Families.
Slavery.
Social conditions.
SUBJECT Loudoun County (Va.) -- Social conditions
Subject Virginia -- Loudoun County.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780198025566
0198025564
9781602562523
1602562520