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Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Volume 119 / Number 2

Book reviews

The Quarters and the Fields: Slave Families in the Non-Cotton South
By Damian Alan Pargas
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2010
Reviewed by Michael B. Chesson, American College of History and Legal Studies

The Imperfect Revolution: Anthony Burns and the Landscape of Race in Antebellum America
By Gordon S. Barker
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 2010
Reviewed by Phillip Hamilton, Christopher Newport University

Confederate Minds: The Struggle for Intellectual Independence in the Civil War South
By Michael T. Bernath
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010
Reviewed by Peter S. Carmichael, Gettysburg College

Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation
By Mary Farmer-Kaiser
New York: Fordham University Press, 2010
Reviewed by Larry A. Greene, Seton Hall University

The Big House after Slavery: Virginia Plantation Families and Their Postbellum Domestic Experiment
By Amy Feely Morsman
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010
Reviewed by Brian Craig Miller, Emporia State University

The New Economy and the Modern South
By Michael Dennis
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009
Reviewed by Michael T. Bertrand, Tennessee State University


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