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#1 I met Regina Charboneau, a chef and cookbook writer, at the Hot Tamale literary-culinary festival in Mississippi. She had moved back to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, after selling everything in San Francisco.
#2 I visited the site of the second-largest slave market in the Deep South, known as the Forks of the Road. The markers were informative and disturbing,...
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"Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Prominent white families dress up in hoopskirts and Confederate uniforms for ritual celebrations of the Old South, yet Natchez is also progressive enough to elect a gay black man for mayor...
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Library of America volume 250
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" ... [Draws from] letters, diary entries, speeches, articles, messages and poems to provide an incomparable literary portrait of a nation at war with itself, while illuminating the military and political events that brought the Union to final victory and slavery and secession to their ultimate destruction ..."--Dust jacket flap.
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