Life in black and white [electronic resource] : family and community in the slave South / Brenda E. Stevenson

Author:: Stevenson, Brenda E.
Published:: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (xv, 457 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

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Summary:

Providing a panoramic portrait of family and community life in the American South, this book weaves personal stories of planters and slaves, of free blacks and poor-to-middling whites, into a picture of southern society in Loudoun County, Virginia from the 1750s to the 1860s.

Subject(s):

Families—Virginia—Loudoun County—History—18th century
Families—Virginia—Loudoun County—History—19th century
Slavery—Virginia—Loudoun County—History—18th century
Slavery—Virginia—Loudoun County—History—19th century
Loudoun County (Va.)—Social conditions—18th century
Loudoun County (Va.)—Social conditions—19th century

ISBN:

9780199853793 (ebook)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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