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Paperback, 82 pages, illustrated, $12.00

This book delves into the little-known history of Free Black slaveholders, exploring the social, economic, and legal factors that shaped their lives and experiences. It examines their motivations, their relationships with both the White slaveholding class and the enslaved population, and the impact of their status as slaveholders on their lives, their acceptance within the community, and their place in the social hierarchy after the War Between the States.

The existence of free Black slaveholders challenges our conventional understandings of the antebellum South. It prompts us to question the rigidity of the racial hierarchy, to consider the multifaceted nature of freedom, and to recognize the complexities of power dynamics within a system built on the foundation of forced labor.

Paperback, 324 pages, indexed $20.00

An introduction to previously unknown Confederate Spies, many of whom were old men, young men, pretty women, older ladies. Black men, white men, many were young boys (the youngest being nine years old). They were of the Jewish faith and of the Christian faith. They were many foreigners too, a French lady from Santo Domingo, a beautiful Irish aristocratic lady, a young British adventurer. And finally there were a few British mercenaries, a real French prince and so on and so forth.