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Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Volume 109 / Number 4

Book reviews:

Damned Souls in a Tobacco Colony: Religion in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
By Edward L. Bond
Reviewed by Thomas E. Buckley, S.J.

American Colonies
By Alan Taylor
Reviewed by James Edward Scanlon

With Reverence for the Past: Gloucester County, Virginia
By Martha W. McCartney
Reviewed by Emily Salmon

The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times
By Charles Royster
Reviewed by Turk McCleskey

Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason
By Buckner F. Melton
Reviewed by James E. Lewis, Jr.

Coming to Terms With Democracy: Federalist Intellectuals and the Shaping of American Culture
By Marshall Foletta
Reviewed by K. R. Constantine Gutzman

Born in Bondage: Growing up Enslaved in the Antebellum South
By Marie Jenkins Schwartz
Reviewed by Stephanie J. Shaw

Migrants Against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation
By Philip J. Schwarz
Reviewed by Edward E. Baptist

Campbell Brown's Civil War: With Ewell and the Army of Northern Virginia
Edited, with an introduction by Terry L. Jones
Reviewed by John S. Salmon

General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend
By Lesley J. Gordon, edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Reviewed by Wallace Hettle

Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888-1908
By Michael Perman
Reviewed by Sheldon Hackney

Brushing Back Jim Crow: The Integration of Minor League Baseball in the American South
By Bruce Adelson
Reviewed by Bruce Clayton

The Chesapeake: An Environmental Biography
By John R. Wennersten
Reviewed by Jack Temple Kirby

Lost Virginia: Vanished Architecture of the Old Dominion
Edited by Bryan Clark Green, Calder Loth, and William M. S. Rasmussen
Reviewed by Claudia Brown

Richmond's Monument Avenue
By Sarah Shields Driggs, Richard Guy Wilson, and Robert P. Winthrop
Reviewed by Damie Stillman



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