Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and War - Drew Gilpin Faust - Google Books

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"We all live within the stories we tell, " writes Drew Faust, "for these tales fashion a coherent direction and identity out of the discontinuities of our past, present, and future." Forging an identity was an extraordinary task for white southerners of…