Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South historic buidling Screen print

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retired journalist Ben McNitt tells the story of how slavery shaped American politics—and indeed the American story—from the Founding until the Civil War

Uncovered by sharp scholarship

White settlers' growing hostility

With the support of her mother and her stuffed animal companions

Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South historic buidling Screen printby 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