University of Georgia Press, 1996 This volume, by our leading scholar of the laws of slavery in Virginia, has much to recommend it. In the end, however, it does not live up to expectations. That is mot inexcusable, because Schwarz carries us farther than we have ventured before. In fact, he is aware of the »

University Press of Virginia, 1996 The women who founded what is now known as the Museum of the Confederacy in 1896 had a rule that they almost always adhered to: that while they would work endlessly to preserve the memory of the Confederate Cause and the men who fought for it, they would allow no »