Thank you, Edward, and thank you. Brent.  I've  read the Gordon-Reed book.
Eye-opening.   I'll get busy reading and googling.


On Thu, Sep 23, 2021, 10:16 AM Tarter, Brent <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> A few of the recent books, mostly about Virginians and some of them
> controversial, that I have learned from and that may help us understand
> this phenomenon, which I don’t think any of us can ever fully comprehend in
> all its complexity from our own personal experiences:
>
>
>
> Annette Gordon Reed, *The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family*
> (2008).
>
>
>
> Joshua D. Rothman, *Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families across
> the Color Line in Virginia, 1787–1861*(2003.)
>
>
>
> Marie Jenkins Schwartz, *Ties That Bound: Founding First Ladies and Slaves*
> (2017).
>
>
>
> Philip J. Schwarz, *Migrants against Slavery: Virginians and the Nation*
> (2001).
>
>
>
> Brenda E. Stevenson, *Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the
> Slave South* (1996).
>
>
>
> Wiencek, Henry, *Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves*
> (2012).
>
>
>
> Eva Sheppard Wolf, *Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in
> Antebellum Virginia* (2012).
>
>
>
> Brent Tarter
>
> [log in to unmask]
>
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 1:35 PM Sally Phillips <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > My 4g grandfather was the scion of a white well-to-do Virginia planter
> > family.  He effectively married his African American slave, although of
> > course the law prevented their actual legal marriage.  They lived
> together
> > for at least 30 years and had nine children together.  He freed her and
> all
> > the children and left the children land, money, and slaves in his will.
> > Some of the children bought and sold slaves, although one went to Ohio in
> > search of a non-slave environment.
> >
> > Needless to say, I'm interested in what this 4g grandfather, and several
> of
> > his children, were thiniking.  Didt they feel they had to own slaves as
> > their only viable source of labor on their land?
> >
> > Can anyone suggest a book or books that might throw some light on their
> > attitudes and opinions?  Thank you.
> >
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