Description: Centered in Loudoun County, Virginia, and the surrounding vicinity, LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE provides a panoramic portrait of family and community life in the American South--weaving the fascinating personal stories of planters and slaves, of free blacks and poor-to-middling whites, into a powerful portrait of southern society from the mid-18th century to the Civil War. Photos.
Review Quotes: "An impressive example of the kind of local and regional history that for the last generation has transformed our understanding of the past."--The New York Review of Books
"This book about the lives of blacks and whites in Loudoun County, Va., in the century before the Civil War makes fascinating reading."--The Washington Times"Brenda Stevenson has written an eloquent, original, and humane book on the most intimate aspects of life in the antebellum South."--Edward L. Ayers, Professor of History, The University of Virginia, and author of The Promise of the New South