Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders Alaina O'Connell The contributors include Deacon Ed

The contributors include Deacon Ed Shoener

With hundreds of verses on topics such as hope

Divided into six sections

This haunting story of a son's quest to understand the mystery of his father's death is "searing and unforgettable

"The Museum of an Extinct Race" is a soul-shaking tale of faith and resurrection in the face of crushing persecution

Ruling Race: A History of American Slaveholders Alaina O'Connell The contributors include Deacon EdThis pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterparts in the North: they were committed to free market commercialism and political