“The plantation economy had no room for poor whites; the proprietor or over-seer, a physician on the more prosperous plantations, possibly their families, these were sufficient. “If a state,” wrote Weston, “could be supposed to be made up of continuous… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
Being a slave meant never having the stability of knowing your family would be together as many years as God designed it to be. It meant you could come back from picking cotton in a field to find that your… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
