A Terrible Intimacy: Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South

From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a revelatory new account of slavery, uncovering a surprising web of relationships between black and white people that ranges far beyond the familiar template of “master-slave” dynamics.  Focusing on six criminal cases in Prince Edward County, Virginia, A Terrible Intimacy goes beyond master and slave relationships to examine white people and black people living together not on plantations but on small properties, interacting as slave and overseer yet, also interacting and mingling socially, religiously, and criminally.