In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful slave
Laws and cultural norms militated against interracial sex in Virginia before the Civil War, and yet it was ubiquitous in cities, towns, and plantation communities throughout the state. In Notorious in
Winner of the Frank L. and Harriet Owsley Award, Southern Historical AssociationWinner of the Michael V. R. Thomason Book Award, Gulf South Historical AssociationIn 1834 Virgil Stewart rode from weste
In the decades before the Civil War, movements to reform American lives swept the United States. Reformers strove to stamp out what they perceived as sin and vice, to contain the worst excesses and c
