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• Title:Life in black and white : family and community in the slave South / Brenda E. Stevenson.
  
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• Author/Creator:Stevenson, Brenda E.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: HN79.V82 L687 1996
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Family--Virginia--Loudon County--History--19th century.
  Slavery--Virginia--Loudon County--History--19th century.
  Loudoun County (Va.)--Social conditions.
  
• Description:xv, 457 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-439) and index.
  
• ISBN:0195095367 (acid-free paper)
  
• Contents:I. Marriage, Family, and the Loudoun White Community
  1. White Community: Patterns of Settlement, Development, and Conflict
  2. Gender Convention and Courtship
  3. Marriage, for Better or for Worse
  4. Parenting
  5. Broken Vows and "Notorious" Endings: Divorce
  II. Black Life, Family, and Community
  6. Nature of Loudoun Slavery
  7. Slave Family Structure
  8. Slave Marriage and Family Relations
  9. Free Blacks
  10. Free Black Family and Household Economy.