Interesting...I have a Kindle now and have been reading a number of books on the Civil war and post years...as many by African Americans as I can. My favorite writer in the world is Booker T. Washington..whom I know from vocational education work...he is the saint of that part of education and his words are quoted forever...as applying to everyone..not just the poor, not just this or that group, but everyone. Also..you can read Slave Chronicles, various biographies etc. Very important that we read the words written in those unfortunate days.

One thing I will never ever understand about slavery is not just the terrible rape or bondage or even being purchase reason of women slaves..but the fact that a "master" could willingly father children who would be slaves...his own children.

Anyway, I have a song somewhere about a group of young southern women..the men are all gone, they have no fabric to make clothes out of, their fancy ballrooms are burned to the ground, and they decide to have their dance anyway...They said we'll dance with the old men and the young boys and we'll ask our grannies for their old dresses we'll fix up and we'll clean up the barn and dance there. I have no idea if it is a good song or not..obviously trite, but trite because things like that happened...