Description
Integrating the history of a small plantation village in Orange County, Virginia, bringing together for the public memories of people whose written remains have been separated by race, but whose lives were led in close proximity--and who were, indeed, members of the same big biracial family. As a mix of the blood of both sides--that of Governor James Barbour and of his enslaved African workers--Mary Ann French utilizes the Barbour records of Alderman Library at the University of Virginia, along with family history, photos, diaries, and letters to tell the other side of the story.
